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LAWS  GOVERNING 

GENERAL  ELECTIONS  AND 
PRIMARY  ELECTIONS  '«*• 


IN  THE 


State  of  Florida 


T.   J.   Appleyard,  State   Printer, 
Tallahassee,    Florida. 


Laws  Governing  Elections  in  the  State 
of  Florida. 


Section  170.  Who  Are  Qualified  Electors. — Every  male 
person  of  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  and  upwards,  that 
shall  at  the  time  of  registration  be  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States,  and  shall  have  resided  and  had  his  habitation, 
domicile,  home  and  place  of  permanent  abode  in  Florida 
for  one  year-  and  in  the  county  for  six  months,  shall,  if 
otherwise  qualified  according  to  law  in  such  county,  be 
deemed  a  qualified  elector  at  all  elections  under  the  Con- 
stitution. Naturalized  citizens  of  the  United  States,  at 
the  time  of  and  before  registration,  shall  produce  to  the 
registration  officer  their  certificates  of  naturalization  or 
duly  certified  copies  thereof,  and  shall  make  oath  that 
they  are  the  identical  persons  named  in  such  certificate, 
before  they  shall  be  allowed  to  register;  Provided,  That 
the  following  classes  of  persons  shall  not  be  entitled  to 
vote: 

First.     Persons  not  duly  registered  according  to  law. 

Second.  Persons  under  guardianship,  including  those 
kept  in  or  confined  in  any  public  prison. 

Third.     Persons  who  are  insane  or  idiotic. 

Fourth.  Persons  who  may  have  been  convicted  of 
felony  by  any  court  of  record. 

Fifth.  Persons  who  may  have  been  convicted  of  bribery, 
perjury,  or  larceny,  or  of  any  infamous  crime  in  any 
court  of  this  State,  or  any  other  State,  or  interested  in 
any  bet  or  wager  the  result  of  which  shall  depend  upon 
any  election,  or  that  shall  hereafter  fight  a  duel,  or  send, 
knowingly  carry  or  accept  a  challenge  to  fight,  or  that 
shall  be  a  second  to  either  party,  or  that  shall  be  the 
bearer  of  such  a  challenge  or  acceptance;  but  the  legal 
disability  shall  not  accrue  until  after  trial  and  convic- 
tion by  due  form  of  law. 

Sixth.  No  person  shall  be  permited  to  vote  at  an 
election  who  shall  have  failed  to  pay,  at  least  on  or  before 


the  second  Saturday  in  the  month  preceding  the  day  of 
such  election,  his  poll  taxes  for  the  two  years  next  pre- 
ceding the  year  in  which  such  election  shall  be  held ;  Pro- 
vided, That  no  person  shall  be  prevented  from  voting  on 
account  of  not  having  so  paid  a  poll  tax  for  any  year 
which  shall  not  have  been  lawfully  assessable  against 
him  by  reason  of  his  not  having  been  of  age,  or  having 
been  over  55  years  of  age  or  who  has  lost  a  limb  in  battle, 
and  who  shall  have  procured  and  shall  exhibit  the  certifi- 
cate of  the  Supervisor  of  Eegistration  to  that  effect  as 
hereinafter  provided  for;  Provided,  That  no  person  who 
has  not  been  in  this  State  one  year  previous  to  any  gen- 
eral election,  shall  be  required  to  pay  more  than  one 
year's  poll  taxes. 

Sec.  171.  Day  of  General  Election. — A  general  elec- 
tion shall  be  held  in  the  several  counties  of  this  State  on 
the  Tuesday  next  succeeding  the  first  Monday  in  Novem- 
ber, A.  D.  1906,  and  biennially  on  the  same  day  there- 
after, or  upon  such  a  day  as  may  hereafter  be  fixed  by 
law,  at  which  general  election  there  shall  be  chosen,  by 
the  qualified  electors  in  this  State,  such  elective  State 
and  county  officers  whose  term  of  office  may  then  require 
an  election  to  be  held  to  fill  such  office,  beside  State  Sen- 
ators and  members  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of 
this  State,  and  such  other  elective  officers  as  may  be  re- 
quired to  be  elected,  as  provided  by  the  Constitution  and 
laws  of  this  State,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided. 

Sec.  172.  General  Elections. — A  Governor,  the  admin- 
istrative officers  of  the  executive  department,  and  the 
State  Senators  representing  the  odd  numbered  districts, 
shall  be  elected  at  a  general  election  to  be  held  in  A.  D. 
1908,  and  every  four  years  thereafter.  State  Senators 
from  the  even  numbered  districts  shall  be  chosen  the  gen- 
eral election  in  A.  D.  1906  and  every  four  years  there- 
after. Members  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
shall  be  chosen  at  every  -general  election,  A  Clerk 
of  the  Circuit  Court  and  County  Judge,  and  Sheriff, 
and  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  and  a  County 
Surveyor,  shall  be  chosen  for  each  county  in  this  State 
by  its  qualified  electors  at  said  election,  A.  D.  1908,  and 
every  four  years  thereafter.  A  County  Assessor  of  Taxes, 
and  County  Tax  Collector  and  a  County  Treasurer  for 
each  county  in  this  State,  and  County  Board  of  Public 


Instruction,  consisting  of  three  members,  one  from  each 
school  board  district,  to  be  elected  from  the  several  conn- 
ties  at  large  of  this  State,  and  a  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners of  five  members,  one  from  each  county  commis- 
sioner's district,  elected  from  the  several  counties  at  large 
of  this  State-  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  a  Constable 
for  each  justice  district,  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified 
electors  thereof  at  every  general  election. 

Sec.  173  As  to  Election  of  Justices  of  Supreme  Court. — 
See  Section  1742.  (To  be  Six  Justices  of  the  Supreme 
Court.) — From  and  after  the  first  Tuesday  after  the  first 
Monday  in  June,  1905,  the  Supreme  Court  shall 
consist  of  six  Justices,  who  shall  be  elected  by 
the  qualified  electors  of  the  State  at  the  time 
and  place  of  voting  for  members  of  the  Legislature,  and 
shall  hold  their  office  for  the  term  of  six  years,  except  as 
hereinafter  provided:  Of  the  four  Justices  who  were 
elected  at  the  general  election,  A.  D.  1904,  the  one  elected 
to  succeed  the  then  Chief  Justice  shall  hold  office  for  the 
term  of  six  years,  beginning  on  the  first  Tuesday  after  the 
first  Monday  in  January,  1905,  and  the  three  who  were 
elected  to  succeed  the  three  additional  Justices  provided 
for  by  the  amendments  of  Sections  2  and  4,  of  Article  V. 
of  the  Constitution,  adopted  at  the  general  election  held 
A.  D.  1902,  whose  terms  of  office  begin  on  the  first  Tues- 
day after  the  first  Monday  in  June,  A.  D.  1905,  one  of 
whom  to  be  designated  by  lot  in  such  manner  as  the  three 
may  determine,  who  shall  hold  his  office  until  the  first 
Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  January,  A.  D.  1909; 
another  to  be  designated  in  like  manner  until  the  first 
Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  January,  A.  D.  1909, 
and  the  third  until  the  first  Tuesday  after  the  first  Mon- 
day in  January,  A.  D.  1911.  Successors  to  the  two  re- 
maining Justices  now  m  office  shall  be  elected  at  the  gen- 
eral election  immediately  preceding  the  expiration  of 
their  respective  terms  of  office;  so  that  two  Justices  shall 
be  elected  at  every  general  election  thereafter  for  terms 
of  six  years,  to  begin  on  the  first  Tuesday  after  the  first 
Monday  in  January  after  their  election.  The  Chief  Jus- 
tice shall  be  designated  by  lot  by  the  Justices  composing 
the  court,  and  shall  be  such  during  his  term  of  office;  Pro- 
vided, however,  The  present  Chief  Justice  shall  remain 
such  during  his  term  of  office.  (Chapter  6169  (No.  50), 


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Laws  of  Florida,  approved  June  3,  1911,  reduced  the  num- 
ber of  Supreme  Court  Justices  to  five.) 

Sec.  174.  Election  of  Representatives  to  Congress  and 
Presidential  Electors. — A  representative  to  the  Congress 
of  the  United  States  shall  be  elected  in  and  for  each  Con- 
gressional District  of  this  State  at  every  general  election. 
Electors  of  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States  shall  be  elected  on  the  first  Tuesday  after  the 
first  Monday  in  November,  A.  D.  1908,  and  on  the  same 
day  every  four  years  thereafter.  (For  election  of  United 
States  Senator,  see  Chapter  6471  (No.  51),  Laws  of  Flor- 
ida, published  in  this  pamphlet.) 

Sec.  175.  Special  Elections. — Special  elections  shall  be 
held  in  the  following  cases: 

First.  Where  there  has  been  no  choice  of  any  officer 
who  should  have  been  elected  at  a  general  election. 

Second.  When  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  the  office  of 
State  Senator  or  Member  of  the  House  of  Eepresentatives 
of  this  State.  But  in  case  of  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of 
State  Senator  or  Member  of  the  said  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, a  special  election  shall  not  be  held  unless  a 
session  of  the  Legislature  shall  be  held  after  the  vacancy 
occurs  and  before  a  general  election. 

Third.  When  a  vacancy  shall  occur  more  than  three 
months  before  a  general  election,  in  the  office  of  Repre- 
sentative to  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  or  in 
any  other  office  that  the  Governor  shall  not  be  authorized 
to  fill  by  appointment.  But  if  any  vacancy  shall  occur 
at  a  time  not  more  than  three  months  before  a  general 
election,  the  Governor  may,  in  his  discretion,  order  a  spe- 
cial election  to  fill  the  same. 

Fourth.  When  it  shall  be  necessary  to  elect  Presiden- 
tial Electors,  by  reason  of  the  offices  of  President  and 
Vice-President  both  having  become  vacant. 

(For  special  election  of  United  States  Senator,  see 
Chapter  6471  (No.  51),  Laws  of  Florida,  published  in  this 
pamphlet.) 

Sec.  176.  Notice  of  General  Elections. — The  Secretary 
of  State  shall,  between  the  first  days  of  July  and  Septem- 
ber' in  any  year  in  which  a  general  election  shall  be  held, 
make  out  and  cause  to  be  published,  at  least  sixty  days 
prior  to  the  day  of  holding  the  election,  in  one  or  more 


newspapers  printed  at  the  State  Capital,  at  least  once  a 
week  until  the  election,  a  notice  stating  what  offices  and 
vacancies  are  to  be  filled  at  such  general  election  in  the 
State,  and  in  each  county  and  district  thereof,  and  shall 
send  to  the  Sheriff  of  each  county  a  notice  of  the  offices 
and  vacancies  of  each  county  to  be  filled  at  such  general 
election  by  the  qualified  voters  of  his  county,  or  any  dis- 
trict thereof,  and  the  Sheriff  shall  cause  a  copy  of  such 
notice  to  be  published  weekly  in  a  newspaper  printed  in 
his  county,  if  there  be  one  in  the  county,  and  if  there  be 
no  such  paper  printed  in  his  county,  he  shall  cause  at 
lease  five  copies  of  such  notice  to  be  posted  in  the  most 
conspicuous  and  public  places  in  the  county. 

Sec.  177.  Notice  of  Special  Elections. — Whenever  a  spe- 
cial election  for  any  office  is  required  to  be  holden,  the 
Governor  shall  make  an  order  declaring  on  what  day  the 
same  shall  be  held,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  Secretary 
of  State,  whereupon  the  Secretary  of  State  shall  publish 
notice  of  the  election  to  be  holden  therefor  in  one  or  more 
newspapers  published  weekly  at  the  State  Capital,  for  not 
less  than  fifteen  days  nor  more  than  forty  days  prior  to 
said  election,  containing  notice  of  the  vacancy  or  vacan- 
cies to  be  filled,  and  of  the  county  or  counties  in  which 
elections  are  to  be  held  therefor,  and  the  Secretary  of 
State  shall  also  deliver  to  the  Sheriff  of  such  county  or 
counties,  in  which  such  special  elections  are  to  be  held,  a 
notice  of  the  time  of  election  and  the  offices  to  be  filled  by 
the  voters  of  their  respective  counties,  or  any  district 
thereof,  and  the  Sheriff  shall  cause  a  copy  of  such  notice 
to  be  published  weekly  in  some  newspaper  printed  in  his 
county,  if  there  be  such  a  newspaper,  and  if  there  be  no 
such  paper  printed  in  his  county,  he  shall  cause  at  least 
five  copies  of  such  notice  to  be  posted  in  the  most  public 
and  conspicuous  places  in  the  county. 

Sec.  178.  Oath  and  Identification  of  Elector  for  Regis- 
tration.— Upon  application  for  registration  each  elector 
shall  be  required  to  take  and  subscribe  the  following  oath : 
"I  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm)  that  I  will  protect  and 
defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  of  the 
State  of  Florida;  that  I  am  twenty-one  years  of  age  and 
have  been  a  resident  of  the  State  of  Florida  for  twelve 
months,  and  of  this  county  for  six  months;  that  I  am  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States,  and  that  I  am  qualified  to 


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vote  under  the  Constitution  and  laws  of  the  State  of 
Florida."  The  Supervisor  of  Registration  and  district 
registration  officers  provided  for  are  hereby  authorized 
and  required  to  administer  this  oath,  and  the  elector 
shall  also  be  required,  under  oath,  to  be  administered  by 
the  registration  officer  to  give  such  description  of  himself 
as  will  be  sufficient  to  clearly  identify  his  person  with 
the  act  of  registration. 

Sec.  179.  Supervisor  of  Registration  and  District  Reg- 
istration Officers. — Upon  the  expiration  of  the  term  of 
office  for  which  each  Supervisor  of  Registration  of  elec- 
tors has  heretofore  been  appointed  in  each  county,  and 
every  two  years  thereafter,  the  Governor  shall  appoint, 
subject  to  removal  by  him  at  any  time,  one  competent, 
discreet  and  fair-minded  person  in  each  county,  who  shall 
be  a  qualified  elector  thereof,  to  be  known  as  the  Super- 
visor of  Registration  of  electors  in  said  county.  Such 
Supervisor  shall  hold  his  office  for  two  years,  and  until 
his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified.  He  shall 
keep  his  office  at  the  county  site,  and  shall  have  exclusive 
charge  of  the  registration  of  electors,  and  for  this  pur- 
pose shall  open  and  keep  books  suitable  for  such  registra- 
tion of  electors  in  each  election  district  in  such  county. 
He  shall  appoint,  subject  to  removal  at  any  time  by  him, 
a  district  registration  officer  of  each  election  district  in 
his  county,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  attend  to  the  regis- 
tration of  electors  in  such  district  as  hereinafter  provided. 
The  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall  not  be  eligible  for 
any  other  office  until  six  months  after  ceasing  to  be  such 
Supervisor. 

Sec.  180.  Supervisor  to  Take  Oath  and  Give  Bond— 
Compensation. — Each  Supervisor  shall,  before  entering 
on  the  performance  of  his  duties,  take  the  oath  prescribed 
by  Section  2,  Article  XVI,  of  the  Constitution,  and  shall 
give  a  bond  to  the  Governor  of  the  State  in  the  sum  of 
five  hundred  dollars,  with  two  sureties,  to  be  approved  by 
the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  his  county,  con- 
ditioned for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  as  such 
Supervisor.  The  compensation  of  such  Supervisors  shall 
be  such  sum  or  sums  in  proportion  to  the  amount  of  work 
to  be  done  as  may  be  fixed  and  allowed  by  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners  in  each  county  respectively;  Pro- 
vided, That  the  compensation  of  no  Supervisor  shall  be 


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less  than  one  hundred  (f  100. 00)  dollars  per  annum.  The 
district  registration  officers  shall  be  paid  for  their  services 
by  the  respective  counties  such  sum  or  sums  as  may  be 
fixed  and  allowed  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners 
in  each  county  respectively,  after  the  Supervisor  of  Reg- 
istration shall  have  certified  to  the  amount  of  service 
performed  by  each  of  such  district  registration  officers. 

Sec.  181.  Supervisor  May  Remove  District  Registra- 
tion Officer. — Each  Supervisor  shall  have  power  at  any 
time  to  remove  any  district  registration  officer  within 
his  county  whenever  he  deems  proper,  and  such  district 
registration  officer,  when  so  removed,  shall  on  demand, 
surrender  to  such  Supervisor  all  books  and  papers  con- 
nected with  his  office.  Each  district  registration  officer 
shall,  before  entering  upon  the  performance  of  his  duties, 
make  oath  in  writing,  before  any  officer  authorized  to 
administer  oaths,  that  he  will  well  and  faithfully  per- 
form the  duties  of  his  office,  which  oath  shall  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  Supervisor  of  Registration,  and  preserved 
by  him. 

Sec.  182.  To  Deliver  Books  and  Papers  to  Successor. — 
Upon  the  removal  of  any  Supervisor  of  Registration  of 
Electors,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  immediately  and  promptly 
deliver  over  to  his  successor  all  the  books  and  papers  and 
blanks  belonging  to  his  office  or  connected  therewith  in 
any  way. 

Sec.  183.  Time  of  Registration  and  Office  Hours. — 
The  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall  keep  the  registration 
books  of  the  county  open  at  his  office  at  least  three  days 
in  each  week,  and  oftener  if  the  County  Commissioners 
shall  so  order,  from  9  o'clock  a.  m.  to  12  m.  and  from  2 
o'clock  p.  m.  until  5  p.  m.,  from  the  first  Monday  in 
August  in  each  year  in  which  there  is  any  general  elec 
tion,  for  the  registration  of  electors.  And  he  shall  give 
notice,  by  publishing  in  a  newspaper  printed  in  his  coun- 
ty for  two  consecutive  weeks  immediately  preceding  the 
time  of  opening  his  books,  naming  the  days  of  the  week 
he  will  keep  his  books  open.  The  district  registration 
officers,  hereinbefore  provided  for,  shall  keep  the  registra 
tion  books  for  such  district  open  at  some  convenient  place 
therein  for  the  purpose  of  registration  at  least  two  days 
in  each  week,  from  9  o'clock  a.  m.  to  12  m.  and  from  1 


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o'clock  p.  m.  to  7  p.  m.  from  the  first  Monday  in  Septem- 
ber until  the  second  Saturday  of  the  month  preceding  the 
day  in  each  year  in  which  there  is  any  general  election. 
He  shall  give  notice,  by  posting  in  three  conspicuous 
places  in  his  district,  naming  days  of  the  week  his  books 
will  be  open,  and  at  what,  particular  building  or  dwelling 
he  will  be.  During  the  time  that  the  district  registration 
officer  is  registering  voters  he  may  register  in  one  book 
and  the  Supervisor  in  another.  The  registration  books  of 
each  county  shall  be  closed  on  said  second  Saturday  of 
the  month  preceding  the  day  in  each  year  in  which  there 
shall  be  a  general  election.  And  no  person  shall  be  al- 
lowed to  register  at  any  other  time  than  during  the  period 
herein  provided  for  the  opening  of  said  books  for  registra- 
tion of  electors. 

Sec.  184.  Registration  and  Election  Districts. — Each 
election  and  registration  district,  voting  place  or  precinct 
in  this  State,  as  now  laid  out,  defined  and  fixed,  is  hereby 
recognized  and  continued ;  but  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners in  each  county  are  hereby  empowered,  at  any 
time  prior  to  the  first  day  of  July  in  any  year  in  which 
there  shall  be  a  general  election,  to  alter  or  change  the 
same,  or  to  create  new  districts,  designating  each  district 
by  number,  and  at  the  most  suitable  point  in  each  district 
to  establish  a  voting  place  or  precinct,  at  which  voting 
place  or  precinct  there  shall  be  a  polling  place,  as  herein- 
after provided,  which  said  voting  place  or  precinct  shall 
not  thereafter  be  changed  without  the  consent  of  four 
members  of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  in  meet- 
ing assembled. 

Sec.  185.  Description  of  Election  Districts  To  Be 
Recorded. — Within  ten  days  after  there  shall  be  any 
change  in  the  division,  number  or  boundaries  of  the  elec- 
tion districts  as  now  established,  or  of  the  location  of  the 
voting  places  or  precincts,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
County  Commissioners  in  each  county  in  which  there 
shall  be  any  such  change  to  make  in  writing  an  accurate 
description  of  any  such  new  or  altered  election  districts, 
setting  forth  the  boundary  lines  thereof,  so  as  to  designate 
accurately  the  limits  of  each  district  that  has  not  already 
been  clearly  defined  and  established,  and  they  shall  at 
the  same  time  name  and  clearly  define  and  describe  in 
writing  the  voting  place  or  precinct  which  they  shall  have 


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established  in  any  such  new  or  altered  election  district  or 
in  any  district  in  which  they  may  change  the  voting  place 
or  precinct,  which  they  shall  have  established  in  any 
such  new  or  altered  election  district — or  in  any  district 
in  which  they  may  change  the  voting  place  or  precinct, 
and  they  shall  forthwith  cause  the  same  to  be  recorded 
in  the  registry  of  deeds  in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the 
Circuit  Court  for  such  county. 

Sec.  186.  Publication. — On  recording  the  aforesaid  des- 
ignations and  descriptions  of  said  election  districts  and 
voting  places  or  precincts,  the  said  County  Commission- 
ers shall  publish  the  same  for  not  exceeding  four  weeks 
in  some  newspaper  published  in  the  county,  and  if  there 
be  no  newspaper  published  in  said  county,  they  shall  post 
a  plainly  written  or  printed  copy  of  said  descriptions  and 
designations  at  the  court  house  of  such  county,  in  a  con- 
spicuous place,  and  also  at  three  public  places  in  the  dis- 
trict changed  or  altered. 

Sec.  187.  Publication  of  List  of  Qualified  Voters. — The 
Supervisor  of  Eegistration  of  the  several  counties  of  this 
State  shall  have  published,  within  fourteen  days  after 
the  second  Saturday  in  the  month  preceding  the  day  in 
w^hich  any  general  election  is  held,  a  certified  list  of  the 
registered  and  qualified  electors  of  each  election  district 
whrein  such  election  shall  be  held. 

Sec.  188.  Secretary  of  State  to  Furnish  Books  and 
Blanks. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  State 
to  cause  a  sufficient  number  of  registration  books,  blank 
oaths  for  registration,  certificates  of  registration,  appli- 
cation for  renewal  of  certificates,  certificates  of  transfer, 
and  other  blanks  required  to  be  used  under  this  act,  to  be 
prepared  so  that  there  shall  be  three  of  said  registration 
books  for  each  election  district  in  each  county,  which 
registration  books  shall,  at  the  top  of  each  page,  have  writ- 
ten or  printed  the  oath  required  by  the  Constitution  to  be 
taken  by  electors  at  the  time  of  registration,  and  shall 
be  ruled  in  columns,  with  proper  headings,  so  as  to  indi- 
cate the  name  age,  color,  occupation  and  place  of  resi- 
dence, includin-g  the  street,  lot  and  block  of  any  town  or 
city,  and  the  date  of  registration  of  each  elector  and  the 
number  of  the  certificate  that  may  be  issued  to  him,  with 
a  separate  column  at  the  right  side  of  each  line  for  such 


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notes  and  entries  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  necessary 
to  put  opposite  any  name;  Provided,  That  outside  of 
towns  and  cities  the  residence  may  be  designated  by  num- 
ber of  quarter  section  or  convenient  subdivision  thereof. 
The  pages  of  said  book  shall  be  alphabetically  arranged 
and  numbered,  and  the  lines  in  each  page  shall  be  num- 
bered, and  the  names  thereon  shall  be  alphabetically 
registered. 

Sec.  189.  Requisition  for  Books  and  Blanks. — -Upon 
requisition  of  the  County  Commissioners  of  any  county, 
the  Secretary  of  State  shall  furnish  them  the  required 
number  of  said  books  and  blanks,  which  the  County 
Commissioners  shall  deliver  to  the  Supervisor  of  Regis- 
tration  of  their  respective  counties. 

Sec.  190.  Supervisor  of  Registration  to  Make  Up 
Books. — Immediately  upon  the  expiration  of  the  time  for 
registration  at  the  several  precincts,  each  district  regis- 
tration officer  shall  promptly  deliver  his  book  and  all 
blanks  left  in  his  possession  to  the  Supervisor  of  Regis- 
tration at  the  county  site,  and  thereupon  the  Supervisor 
of  Registration  shall  proceed  to  make  up  the  registration 
books  for  the  several  districts  in  his  county,  so  that  three 
registration  books  for  each  election  district  shall  exactly 
correspond  and  be  as  nearly  as  may  be  a  duplicate  the  one 
of  the  other.  Such  books  shall  be  so  marked  on  the  backs 
thereof  as  to  designate  clearly  to  which  election  district 
they  belong,  and  one  of  the  said  books  for  every  election 
district  shall  be  marked  by  the  Supervisor  on  the  back 
thereof  with  the  words  "Office  Copy,"  and  which  office 
copies  shall  at  all  times  be  kept  by  the  Supervisor  in  his 
office.  The  original  registration  books  used  by  the  dis- 
trict registration  officials  shall  also,  after  being  returned 
by  them,  be  kept  by  the  Supervisor  in  his  office. 

Sec.  191.  Registration  Certificates. — Each  elector,  upon 
being  registered,  shall  be  furnished  by  the  registration 
officer  with  a  certificate  of  registration,  which  certificate, 
issued  by  the  Supervisor,  shall  be  numbered  in  each  dis- 
trict for  which  they  are  issued,  by  consecutive  numbers, 
in  the  order  in  which  they  are  issued  by  him,  which  cer- 
tificates shall  contain  a  statement  of  the  full  name,  age, 
color,  height,  occupation,  place  of  residence  and  date  of 


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registration,  as  entered  in  the  registration  books,  which 
certificates  shall  be  signed  by  the  registration  officer. 

Sec.  192.  Voters  Must  Be  Registered  in  District. — No 
person  shall  be  allowed  to  vote  in  any  other  election  dis- 
trict than  the  one  in  which  he  is  registered ;  nor  shall  any 
person  whose  name  does  not  appear  upon  the  registration 
books  be  allowed  to  vote;  Provided,  That  when  the  name 
of  any  one  who  has  duly  registered  does  not  appear  on 
the  registration  books  of  the  election  district  in  which 
he  is  registered,  and  in  which  he  resides,  such  person 
shall,  on  making  satisfactory  proof  to  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration  of  the  fact  of  his  previous  registration,  and 
that  his  name  has  been  improperly  omitted  from  the  said 
books,  be  entitled  to  have  his  name  restored  to  said  books, 
on  application  to  the  Supervisor  of  Registration,  and 
shall  thereupon  receive  from  such  Supervisor  a  certificate 
of  registration  similar  to  that  hereinbefore  provided  for, 
across  the  face  of  which  shall  be  written  in  red  ink  the 
words  "Restoration  Certificate,'7  by  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration,  on  the  production  of  which,  at  the  proper 
polling  place  of  the  proper  election  district,  he  shall  be 
entitled  to  vote,  even  though  his  name  does  not  appear  on 
the  registration  books  of  such  district;  Provided,  Said 
certificate  of  registration  properly  identified  him  to  the 
managers  of  the  election.  The  certificate  of  registration 
shall  be  of  the  following  form : 

Registration  Certificate  No 

State  of  Florida, 


County        f  Election  District  No. 


The  bearer is  at  the  date  hereof  a 

qualified  elector  in  the   above   district.     He  resides   at 

_ is years  of  age,  by 

occupation  a He  is  feet 

inches  in  height;  his  color  is  and  he  is  entitled 

to  vote  in  said  district,  unless  hereinafter  disqualified, 
Registered  on  this day  of ,  A.  D.  19 


Supervisor  of  Registration  for  said  County. 

Sec.  193.  Certificate  of  Transfer.— The  certificate  of 
transfer  to  be  used  in  cases  of  transfer  from  one  election 
district  to  another  shall  be  of  the  following  form : 


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Transfer  of  Registration  Certificate  No. 
State  of  Florida, 


a  \ 

'county    )  Election  District  No 


The  bearer, ,  is  at  the  date  hereof  a 

qualified  elector  in  the  above  district.  He  resides  at 
,  is  years  of  age,  by  occu- 
pation    He  is  feet  inches  in 

height;  his  color  is  ,  and  he  is  entitled  to 

vote  in  said  District  No ,  where  he  formerly 

resided. 

Transferred  on  this day  of A.  D.  19 


Supervisor  of  Registration  for  said  County. 

Sec.  194.  New  Registration  Books. — Whenever  it  may 
be  necessary,  the  Supervisor  of  Registration  of  any  county 
shall  transfer  and  transcribe  into  new  registration  books, 
from  whatever  registration  books  may  be  in  possession 
of  such  Supervisor,  the  names  of  all  electors  who  appear 
upon  said  old  books,  to  be  properly  and  legally  registered 
electors  thereon  at  the  time  of  such  transfer  to  said  three 
new  books,  taking  £are  that  the  names  of  all  the  electors 
shall  be  transcribed  only  in  the  books  of  the  election  dis- 
trict to  which  such  electors  belong. 

Sec.  195.  When  Books  To  Be  Closed.— At  the  end  of 
the  time  provided  by  this  act  for  the  registration  books 
to  be  kept  open  by  the  Supervisor  of  Registration,  the 
said  books  shall  be  closed,  and  shall  not  again  be  opened 
for  registration  until  after  the  next  succeeding  general 
election,  except  as  herein  provided,  and  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration  shall  attach  his  certificate  to  each  of  said 
three  registration  books,  certifying  that  they  have  been 
examined  and  revised  by  him,  and  that  he  has  caused  such 
registration  to  be  made  in  compliance  with  the  Constitu 
tion  and  laws  of  the  State  of  Florida,  fairly  and  impar- 
tially, to  the  best  of  his  ability,  and  such  books  or  lists 
of  names  so  certified,  with  such  additions,  corrections, 
erasures  and  revisions  as  may  from  time  to  time,  in  con- 
formity to  law,  be  made  to  or  of  the  same,  shall  constitute 
the  registration  books  and  lists  of  such  county. 

Sec.  196.  Custodian  of  Registration  Books. — The  Su- 
pervisors of  Registration  of  Electors  in  the  various  coun- 


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ties  shall  be  the  official  custodians  of  the  books  of  regis- 
tration, and  they  shall  have  the  exclusive  control  and  man- 
agement of  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  proper  registra- 
tion of  electors  at  all  times.  Whenever  it  shall  come  to 
the  knowledge  of  the  Supervisor  of  Registration  that  any 
elector  has  died  or  become  disqualified  to  vote  by  reason 
of  conviction  of  any  disqualifying  crime,  or  from  any 
other  cause,  or  has  removed  from  the  county  or  from  one 
election  district  to  another  in  the  county  without  obtain- 
ing a  certificate  of  transfer,  or  that  his  right  to  vote  has 
become  in  any  wise  affected  since  his  registration,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  said  Supervisor  to  make  a  note  of  such  fact 
on  the  proper  registration  books  opposite  the  name  of 
such  person,  and  to  mark  off  the  names  of  such  persons 
as  have  so  ceased  to  be  qualified  electors  by  running  a  pen 
through  the  name  of  each  person  on  such  books,  and  in 
such  cases  the  Supervisor  shall  carefully  note  in  said 
books  the  date  of  such  erasure,  and  in  no  case  shall  the 
inspectors  or  managers  of  any  election  allow  any  person 
to  vote  whose  name  shall  appear  on  the  books  to  have 
been  struck  off  or  erased,  whether  such  person  shall  have 
a  certificate  of  registration  or  not,  unless  he  produces  or 
exhibits  to  such  managers  a  proper  certificate  signed  by 
the  Supervisor  of  Registration,  showing  that  he  has  been 
properly  restored  to  said  books  subsequent  to  the  date  of 
said  erasure  of  his  name  from  said  books. 

Sec.  197.  Names  May  Be  Restored  to  Registration 
Books. — All  additions  to,  corrections  and  other  entries  in, 
and  all  erasures  of  names,  and  the  causes  and  dates  there- 
of, shall  be  made  by  the  Supervisor  in  all  three  of  the  reg- 
istration books  belonging  to  each  election  district  in  his 
county,  so  as  to  keep  all  three  of  said  books  at  all  times  as 
near  as  may  be  duplicates  the  one  of  the  other;  Provided,. 
That  when  the  name  of  any  elector  shall  have  been  wrong- 
fully or  erroneously  erased,  the  same  shall  be  restored 
by  the  Supervisor  of  Registration  on  application  and 
proofs  to  him,  or  may  be  restored  by  order  of  the  Board 
of  County  Commissioners,  if  the  Supervisor,  on  applica- 
tion and  proofs,  fails  to  do  so. 

Sec.  198.  Renewal  of  Registration  Certificate. — Every 
elector  shall  have  the  right  to  a  renewal  of  his  certificate 
of  registration  without  fee  or  charge  when  the  same  be- 
comes defaced  by  time  or  accident,  upon  his  surrendering 


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'such  certificate  so  defaced  to  the  Supervisor  of  Begistra- 
tion.  Any  elector  who  may  lose  his  certificate  of  registra- 
tion shall  be  entitled  to*  a  renewal  thereof  by  the  Super- 
visor of  Ke-gistration  of  the  county  in  which  such  elector 
was  registered,  upon  application  therefor,  and  proof  of 
the  loss,  in  the  following  manner :  He  shall  at  any  time 
before  the  next  general  election  apply  for  a  renewal  of  his 
certificate,  stating  under  oath,  to  be  administered  by  the 
Supervisor,  the  facts  of  his  former  registration  and  of 
such  loss,  and  that  he  has  not  sold,  bartered  or  parted 
with  his  certificate,  and  has  not  willfully  destroyed  or 
lost  it,  which  application  the  Supervisor  shall  examine 
into,  and  if  the  facts  therein  alleged  shall  be  sustained  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  Supervisor,  he  shall  issue  to  the 
applicant  a  renewal  of  his  certificate,  marking  or  stamp- 
ing across  its  face  the  word  "Kenewal,"  and  shall  make 
the  proper  entry  in  the  registration  books  of  the  fact  of 
such  renewal.  The  decision  of  the  Supervisor  in  such 
case,  if  it  shall  be  against  the  application,  shall  be  subject 
to  revision  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  if  he 
be  notified  of  such  appeal  to  said  board  within  three  days 
after  notice  to  the  applicant  of  the  rejection  of  his  appli- 
cation. 

Sec.  199.  Transfer  Certificate  From  One  District*  to 
Another. — In  case  of  the  removal  of  an  elector  from  one 
district  to  another  district  in  the  same  county-  such  elec- 
tor shall  notify  the  Supervisor  of  Eegistration  of  such 
change  of  residence,  and  shall  surrender  his  certificate  of 
registration  to  such  Supervisor,  who  shall  at  once  enter 
the  fact  in  the  proper  registration  books,  and  shall  give, 
without  fee  or  charge,  such  elector  a  certificate  of  trans- 
fer of  registration  in  accordance  with  such  change  of  resi- 
dence. If  such  person  was  registered  before  a  certificate 
of  registration  was  provided  for  by  law,  and  therefore  he 
has  no  certificate,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  have  his  name 
transferred  as  above  provided  for,  and  shall  also  receive 
the  certificate  of  transfer  as  above  provided  for.  In  case 
of  refusal  or  failure  of  any  elector  to  notify  the  Super- 
visor of  his  removal  of  his  residence,  as  in  this  section 
provided  for,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  Supervisor,  upon 
the  facts  of  such  removal  being  brought  to  his  knowledge, 
to  erase  the  name  of  such  person  from  the  registration 
books,  and  to  note  therein  the  cause  and  date  of  such 
erasure.  No  elector,  who,  having  been  previously  regis- 


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tered,  shall  have  removed  from  one  district  to  another  in 
the  same  county,  shall  be  allowed  to  register-  nor  shall  he 
be  allowed  to  vote  by  the  managers  of  any  election,  with- 
out a  certificate  of  transfer  of  registration  as  above  pro- 
vided. 

Sec.  200.  County  Commissioners  to  Examine  and  Re- 
vise Registration  Books. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
County  Commissioners  of  each  county,  on  the  first 
Wednesday  after  the  registration  books  are  closed,  as 
provided  for  in  this  article,  in  every  year  in  which  there 
is  a  general  election,  to  examine  and  revise  the  registra- 
tion books  of  said  county,  erasing  therefrom  the  names 
of  all  such  as  have  died,  or  removed  from  the  county,  or 
from  one  district  to  another  in  the  same  county,  or  who 
are  otherwise  disqualified  to  vote,  and  restoring  such 
names  as  have  been  improperly  taken  off  by  the  Super- 
visor of  Kegistration ;  said  examination  and  revision 
shall  be  completed  within  three  days  thereafter,  and  im- 
mediately the  County  Commissioners  shall  cause  to  be 
published  in  a  newspaper,  if  there  be  one  published  in 
such  county,  and  also  post  at  the  court  house 
door  a  list  of  the  names  alphabetically  arranged,  that 
have  been  erased  or  stricken  from  the  registration  books 
of  each  district  in  such  county,  either  by  the  Supervisor 
of  Eegistration  or  said  Board  of  County  Commissioners, 
and  any  person  whose  name  shall  have  been  wrongfully  or 
erroneously  erased  or  stricken  off, -and  who  shall'  within 
a  time  not  less  than  ten  days  before  the  day  of  any  gen- 
eral election,  to  be  held  in  such  county,  make  such  fact 
appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  said  board,  shall  be  entitled 
to  have  his  name  restored  to  the  registration  books,  and 
the  Supervisor  of  Kegistration,  when  so  ordered  by  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners,  shall  restore  such  name 
or  names  to  said  books,  with  the  date  of  replacement  and 
entries  as  to  how  or  why  such  restoration  was  made,  and 
he  shall,  without  charge,  issue  to  said  person  or  persons 
a  new  certificate  or  certificates  of  registration,  as  pro- 
vided for  in  Section  198,  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty 
of  the  County  Commissioners  of  each  county  to  hold  such 
special  meetings  as  may  be  necessary  from  time  to  time 
for  carrying  the  provisions  of  this  section  into  effect, 
and  they  are  authorized  to  require  the  County  Treasurer 
o  pay  such  expenses  as  may  be  necessary  in  the  perform- 
ance of  their  duties;  Provided,  That  in  case  any  special 

2— E.L. 


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election  is  held  in  any  county  of  the  State  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  to  hold  a 
meeting  at  least  fifteen  days  before  said  election  and  pro- 
ceed to  revise  the  registration  list  and  give  the  notices 
as  provided,  as  in  cases  of  general  election  in  this  article. 


Seo.  2€1.  Inspectors  of  Election  To  Be  Furnished 
a  Copy  of  Registration  Books.  —  At  each  election  the  Su- 
pervisor of  Eegistration  shall  furnish  the  inspectors  of 
elections  of  each  polling  place  in  each  election  district 
with  one  of  the  registration  books  for  such  district,  the 
Supervisor  retaining  in  his  office  the  other  copy  or  dupli- 
cate of  such  book  that  he  has  marked  "Office  Copy,"  as 
provided  in  Section  196,  for  the  care  and  custody  of  which 
books  so  delivered  to  them,  the  inspectors  receiving  the 
same  shall  be  responsible,  and  which  books  they  shall 
return  to  the  Supervisor  of  Eegistration  within  three 
days  after  the  close  of  the  election.  The  Supervisor  of 
Registration  shall  not  be  authorized  or  required  prior  to 
any  election  to  furnish  copies  of  the  registration  books  of 
his  county  or  to  allow  indiscriminate  handling  or  exami- 
nation thereof  by  any  one,  but  he  shall  at  all  times  allow 
any  elector  to  examine  as  to  the  status  of  his  own  name 
upon  the  books  of  the  election  district  to  which  such 
elector  may  belong. 

Sec.  202.  Poll  Taxes.  —  The  Supervisor  of  Registration 
shall  note  on  the  Registration  books,  which  he  shall  fur- 
nish to  the  inspectors  of  the  different  election  districts, 
the  names  of  all  persons  registered  therein  who  shall 
have  paid,  on  or  before  the  second  Saturday  of  the  month 
immediately  preceding  the  day  of  election,  their  poll  or 
capitation  taxes  for  two  years  next  preceding  the  year  in 
which  such  election  is  held  as  shown  by  the  lists  furnished 
to  the  Supervisor  by  the  Tax  Collector,  and  only  such  per- 
sons shall  be  deemed  qualified  voters  authorized  to  vote  at 
any  general,  special  or  municipal  election  ;  Provided,  That 
no  person  shall  be  prevented  from  voting  on  account  of 
not  having  so  paid  a  poll  tax,  for  any  year  which  shall 
not  have  been  lawfully  assessable  against  him  by  reason 
of  his  not  having  been  of  age  or  was  over  the  age  of  55 
years,  or  who  has  lost  a  limb  in  battle,  and  who  shall 
have  obtained  from  such  Supervisor  a  certificate  to  that 
effect,  and  shall  at  the  time  of  offering  to  vote  exhibit  such 
certificate  to  the  inspectors  of  election.  And  it  shall  be 


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the  duty  of  such  Supervisor  upon  proof  being  made  to 
him  to  give  such  certificate  to  such  person,  without  cost 
to  such  person,  provided  he  is  otherwise  a  duly  qualiified 
and  registered  voter. 

Sec.  203.  County  Commissioners  to  Prepare  Ballot 
Boxes. — The  County  Commissioners  (or  in  case  of  a  mu- 
nicipal election  the  city  or  town  council)  shall  cause  to 
be  prepared  or  secured  one  ballot  box  for  each  polling 
place  in  their  respective  counties'  of  sufficient  size  to  re- 
ceive and  contain  all  the  ballots  of  the  particular  precinct 
or  voting  place  for  which  it  is  intended,  and  it  shall  be 
plainly  marked  or  labeled  with  the  name  of  the  election 
district  or  precinct  or  number  thereof  for  which  it  is  in- 
tended. Before  any  general  or  special  election  they  shall 
place  in  said  ballot  box  twice  as  many  official  ballots,  so 
printed  by  them,  as  there  are  registered  qualified  electors 
in  said  election  precinct,  and  after  securely  locking  said 
box,  sealing  up  the  keyhole  theerof,  and  all  other  open- 
ings, shall  send  the  key  thereof,  in  a  sealed  envelope,  to 
the  inspector  of  election  of  said  election  district,  together 
with  the  box.  The  custodian  shall  be  placed  under  oath 
or  affirmation  to  perform  his  commission  faithfully  and 
impartially,  without  favor  or  prejudice  to  any  political 
party. 

Sec.  204.  Tax  Collectors  To  Be  in  Office  for  Receiving 
Poll  Tares  -for  Certain  Hours  Preceding  Election. — The 
Tax  Collector  of  each  county  shall  in  person  or  by  deputy 
be  present  in  his  office  from  9  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m.  and  from 
2  p.  m.  to  6  p.  m.  each  day,  Sundays  excented,  for  twenty 
days  immediately  preceding  the  second  Saturday  of  the 
month  preceding  the  day  of  any  general  or  special  elec- 
tion, for  the  purpose  of  receiving  all  poll  taxes  properly 
tendered  to  him,  and  he  shall,  as  soon  as  practicable  after 
receiving  the  same,  give  receipts  therefor  in  due  form  of 
law.  In  which  receipts  shall  be  stated  the  color  and  age 
of  the  elector  and  the  number  of  the  election  district  in 
which  such  elector  or  person  paying  such  poll  tax  re- 
sides. The  Tax  Collector  shall  make  a  list  of  those  who 
have  paid  their  poll  taxes  in  each  year  prior  to  the  sec- 
ond Saturday  of  the  month  preceding  the  day  in  any  year 
in  which  any  general  or  special  election  shall  be  held,  and 
such  list  shall  be  alphabetically  arranged.  The  Tax  Col- 
lectors of  the  several  counties  of  this  State,  within  five 


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days  after  the  second  Saturday  in  the  month  preceding 
the  day  in  any  year  in  which  any  general  or  special  elec- 
tion shall  be  held,  shall  make  a  certified  list  in  duplicate 
of  all  persons  who  have  paid  their  poll  taxes  for  the  two 
years  next  preceding  the  year  in  which  such  election  is 
held,  prior  to  the  second  Saturday  in  the  month  preceding 
the  day  upon  which  such  election  shall  be  held,  and  one  of 
said  lists  shall  be  delivered  by  the  Tax  Collector  as  soon 
as  the  same  is  completed  to  the  Supervisor  of  Kegistra- 
tion,  to  be  filed  in  his  office,  and  the  other  shall  be  for- 
warded to  the  Comptroller  of  the  State  of  Florida,  which 
he  shall  file  in  his  office. 

Sec.  205.  Appointment  of  Inspectors  and  Clerks  of 
Election. — For  the  purpose  of  carrying  on  and  conducting 
all  such  general  and  special  elections,  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  County  Commissioners,  in  each  county,  at  least 
twenty  days  prior  to  the  holding  of  any  general  or  special 
election  therein,  to  appoint  three  intelligent,  discreet  and 
fair-minded  inspectors  of  election,  and  a  clerk  of  election, 
for  each  polling  place  in  each  and  every  election  district 
in  such  county,  all  of  whom  shall  be  residents  and  regis- 
tered and  qualified  electors  of  the  election  district  for 
which  they  shall  be  appointed;  all  of  whom  shall  not 
belong  to  the  same  political  party.  The  County  Com- 
missioners in  each  county  shall  cause  the  names  of  such 
inspectors  and  clerks  of  election  to  be  published  in  a 
newspaper  published  in  such  county,  if  there  be  a  newspa- 
per printed  in  the  county,  or  posted  in  a  conspicuous 
place  at  the  court  house,  if  there  be  no  newspaper  printed 
in  the  county,  for  at  least  fifteen  days  before  the  day  of 
holding  any  general  or  special  election  in  such  county. 

Sec.  206.  Compensation  of  Inspectors  and  Clerks. — 
Inspectors  and  clerks  of  any  special  or  general  election 
of  any  county  shall  be  paid  for  their  services  by  their 
respective  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  and  the  in- 
spectors who  carry  the  returns  of  such  elections  to  their 
county  seat  and  properly  deliver  them  shall  receive  two 
dollars  per  day,  and  five  cents  per  mile  each  way  while 
performing  such  service.  No  elector  who  cannot  read  and 
write  the  English  language  shall  be  appointed  inspector 
or  clerk  of  election. 

Sec.  207.    Filling  Vacancies,  Oaths,  Majority  To  Co* 
trol,  Etc. — In  case  of  the  absence  or  refusal  to  act  of  any 


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of  the  inspectors  or  clerks  of  election  appointed  by  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  for  any  district  or  polling 
place,  the  qualified  electors  present  favoring  the  ticket 
which  the  absent  inspector,  inspectors  or  clerk  had  been 
chosen  to  represent,  shall  choose  from  among  their  num- 
ber one  inspector,  inspectors  or  clerk  as  will,  together 
with  the  inspector,  inspectors  or  clerk  present,  constitute 
a  board  of  four;  Provided,  The  inspector,  inspectors  or 
clerk  so  chosen  shall  (if  any  such  be  present)  represent 
the  same  political  party  that  the  absent  inspector,  inspec- 
tors or  clerk  would  represent  if  present,  and  the  person  or 
persons  so  chosen  shall  be  authorized  to  act  as  inspectors 
or  clerk  of  the  election  at  the  polling  place  where  they 
may  be  chosen,  and  said  inspectors  and  clerk  shall  each 
take  and  subscribe  an  oath  or  affirmation'  which  shall  be 
written  or  printed,  to  the  effect  that  they  will  perform  the 
duties  of  inspectors  and  clerk  of  election  according  to 
law,  and  will  endeavor  to  prevent  all  fraud,  deceit  or 
abuse,  in  conducting  the  same. 

Such  oath  may  be  taken  before  any  officer  authorized 
to  administer  oaths,  or  before  either  of  the  persons  who 
are  to  act  as  inspectors,  one  of  them  to  swear  the  others, 
and  one  of  the  others  thus  sworn  in  turn  to  administer 
the  oath  to  him  who  has  not  been  sworn,  and  such  oath 
shall  be  returned  with  the  poll  list,  and  the  returns  of  the 
election  to  the  Supervisor  of  Eegistration.  One  of  the 
inspectors  shall  be  chosen  by  them  as  chairman  of  their 
board. 

(In  any  and  all  questions  that  may  arise  before  said 
inspectors  of  election,  the  decision  of  a  majority  of  them 
shall  decide  such  question.) 

Sec.  208.  Polling  Places. — There  shall  be  in  each  and 
every  election  district  in  each  county  one  polling  place, 
presided  over  and  managed  by  a  board  of  inspectors  and 
clerk  of  election,  as  provided  for  by  law.  At  each  of 
said  polling  places  a  space,  such  as  the  inspectors  of 
election  shall  deem  fit  and  sufficient,  shall  be  railed  off 
and  constructed,  with  an  opening  at  one  end  or  side  for 
entrance  of  the  voter  and  an  opening  at  the  other  for  his 
exit,  as  a  polling  place  in  which  to  hold  the  election.  But 
one  voter  shall  be  allowed  to  enter  any  polling  place  at 
a  time,  and  no  one  except  the  inspectors  of  the  election 
shall  be  allowed  to  speak  to  the  voter  while  in  the  polling 
place  casting  his  vote-  and  no  inspector  shall  speak  to  or 


interfere  with  any  voter  concerning  the  manner  of  his  vot- 
ing or  any  ballot  he  may  vote,  otherwise  than  to  perform 
his  duties  as  such  inspector  specified  herein. 

Sec.  209.  Time  of  Opening  and  Closing  the  Polls. — The 
polls  shall  be  opened  at  such  voting  places  at  8  o'clock 
a.  m.,  on  the  day  of  the  election,  and  shall  be  kept  open 
until  sundown  of  the  same  day,  the  time  to  be  observed 
for  such  opening  and  closing  of  the  polls  to  be  regulated 
by  the  customary  time  in  standard  use  in  such  locality. 
The  inspectors  may,  however,  adjourn  between  12  and  1 
o'clock  for  half  an  hour.  The  inspectors  shall  make  pub- 
lic proclamation  of  the  opening  and  closing  of  the  polls, 
and  the  mid-day  adjournment.  During  the  adjournment 
the  ballot  box  shall  be  kept  in  the  possession  of,  and 
in  view  of  two  of  the  inspectors,  who  shall  not  have  the 
key  thereof,  and  during  the  election  and  canvass  of  the 
vote  the  ballot  box  shall  not  be  concealed  from  the  public. 

Sec.  210.  Secret  Ballot. — In  all  elections  hereafter  held 
in  this  State  on  any  subject  which  may  by  law  be  sub- 
mitted to  a  vote  of  the  people,  and  for  all,  or  any  State, 
county,  district,  or  municipal  officers,  the  voting  shall  be 
by  secret  official  ballots  printed  and  distributed  as  herein- 
after provided,  and  no  ballot  shall  be  received  or  counted 
in  anv  election  to  which  this  act  applies-  except  it  be 
provided  as  herein  prescribed. 

Sec.  211.  Pay  for  Printing  Ballots. — The  printing  and 
delivery  of  ballots  and  cards  of  instruction  to  voters  here- 
inafter prescribed  shall  in  municipal  elections  be  paid  for 
by  the  several  cities  or  towns  respectively,  and  in  all  other 
elections  by  the  several  counties  respectively. 

Sec.  212.  County  Commissioners  or  City  or  Town  Conn 
cil  to  Print  Names  of  Candidates  on  Tickets,  Etc. — The 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  (or  in  case  of  a  munici- 
pal election  the  city  or  town  council)  of  each  county  shall 
cause  to  be  printed  on  the  ballots  to  be  used  in  their 
respective  counties  the  names  of  all  candidates  who  have 
been  put  in  nomination  by  any  caucus,  convention,  mass- 
meeting,  primary  election  or  other  assembly  of  any  politi 
cal  party  or  faction  in  this  State  and  certified  and  filed 
with  them  not  more  than  sixty  nor  less  than  twenty  days 
previous  to  the  day  of  election,  which  certificate  shall 


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contain  the  name  of  each  person  nominated,  and  the  office 
for  which  he  is  nominated,  and  shall  be  signed  by  the 
presiding  officer  and  secretary  of  such  caucus,  conven- 
tion, mass-meeting  or  other  assembly,  or  by  the  can- 
vassing board  of  such  primary  election,  and  be  duly  ac- 
knowledged by  one  or  more  of  them  before  any  officer 
authorized  by  law  to  take  the  acknowledgments.  The 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  (or  in  case  of  a  munici- 
pal election,  the  city  or  town  council)  shall  also  cause 
to  be  printed  upon  said  ballots  the  name  of  any  qualified 
elector  who  has  been  requested  to  be  a  candidate  for  any 
office  by  written  peition  signed,  in  case  of  a  candidate  for 
a  State  or  Federal  office,  by  at  least  five  hundred  electors, 
in  case  of  a  county  or  municipal  office-  by  at  least  twenty- 
five  qualified  electors  to  vote  in  the  election  to  fill  said 
office,  when  such  petition  has  been  filed  with  them  not 
more  than  sixty  days  nor  less  than  twenty  days  previous 
to  the  election.  And  in  addition  to  the  names  printed  upon 
said  ballot,  and  whether  there  be  any  names  printed  on 
said  ballots  or  not,  there  shall  be  printed  under  each 
office  to  be  voted  for  at  the  election,  blank  lines  in  num- 
ber equal  to  the  number  of  persons  who  may  be  elected 
to  fill  that  office. 

Sec.  213.  When  Name  Not  To  Be  Printed  on  Ticket.— 
The  name  of  no  person  shall  be  printed  on  the  ballot  who 
shall,  not  less  than  twenty  days  before  the  election,  notify 
the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  in  writing,  acknowl- 
edged before  an  officer  authorized  by  law  to  take  acknowl- 
edgments, that  he  will  not  accept  the  nomination  specified 
in  the  certificate  of  nomination  or  request  of  electors. 

Sec.  214.  Substituting  Candidate. — When  any  person 
who  has  been  regularly  nominated  and  who  shall  decline 
to  run  for  the  office  to  which  he  has  been  nominated,  the 
party  by  which  such  person  was  nominated  shall  be  al- 
lowed five  days  after  such  declination  to  run  by  such 
person,  in  which  to  substitute  another  candidate. 

Sec.  215.  Secretary  of  State  To  Certifiy  Nominations. — 
In  case  of  any  person  to  be  voted  for  by  the  electors  of 
the  whole  State,  or  of  any  entire  Congressional  District, 
such  certificate  of  nomination  shall  be  filed  in  the  office 
of  the  Secretary  of  State  not  less  than  thirty  days  before 
the  day  of  election,  and  such  Secretary  of  State  shall 


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thereupon  immediately  certify  to  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  of  each  county  in  the  State  in  case  of  an 
officer  to  be  voted  for  by  the  electors  of  the  whole  State, 
and  to  the  Boards  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  counties 
composing  the  Congressional  District  in  case  of  an  officer 
to  be  voted  for  by  the  electors  of  such  district,  upon  suita- 
ble blanks  to  be  prepared  by  him  for  that  purpose,  the 
fact  of  such  nomination  and  the  name  of  the  nominee  or 
nominees-  and  the  name  of  the  office  to  which  he  or  they 
may  be  nominated,  and  the  name  of  such  person  shall  be 
printed  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  upon  the 
ballot  in  its  proper  place  in  all  respects  as  herein  pro- 
vided for  nomination  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners. 

Sec.  216.  Preservation  of  Certificates  and  Petitions  of 
Nominations. — The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall 
cause  to  be  preserved  in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  all  certificates  and  petitions  of  nominations 
filed  therein  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  for  six 
months  after  the  election  for  which  such  nominations  are 
made. 

Sec.  217.  Order  of  Titles  and  Names  on  Ballots. — The 
ballots  printed  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this 
act  shall  contain  the  names  of  all  candidates  nominated 
as  hereinbefore  provided  who  have  not  declined.  The 
names  of  all  candidates  for  the  same  office  shall  be  print- 
ed together,  irrespective  of  party.  But  the  order  in  which 
the  titles  to  the  several  offices  to  be  filled  shall  be  ar- 
ranged upon  the  ballots,  shall  be  left  to  the  discretion  of 
the  officer  charged  with  the  printing  of  the  said  ballots. 

Sec.  218.  Constitutional  Amendment. — Whenever  a 
constitutional  amendment  or  other  public  measure  is 
submitted  to  the  vote  of  the  people,  the  substance  of  each 
amendment  or  other  public  measure  shall  be  twice  in  the 
same  language  indicated  upon  the  ballot  after  the  list  of 
candidates,  followed  in  one  case  by  the  word  "yes,'  and  in 
the  other  case  by  the  word  "no."  (Chapter  5405,  Appen- 
dix). Section  1.  Whenever  an  amendment  or  amend- 
ments to  the  Constitution  of  this  State  are  to  be  voted 
upon  at  any  election  the  County  Commissioners  of  each 
and  every  county  in  this  State  shall  have  any  such  amend- 
ment or  amendments  printed  in  clear  and  legible  type 


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and  a  copy  thereof  conspicuously  posted  at  each  voting 
precinct  in  such  county  upon  the  day  of  election.  Such 
printed  amendments  to  be  furnished  the  County  Com- 
missioners by  the  Secretary  of  State.  Sec.  2.  Nothing 
in  this  act  shall  be  construed  as  repealing  the  law  requir- 
ing constitutional  amendments  to  be  published  in  a  news- 
paper in  each  county  of  the  State. 

Sec.  219.  Directions  for  Printing,  Etc.,  of  Ballot. — All 
ballots  provided  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners 
of  any  county  for  an  election  shall  be  alike,  printed  in 
plain  type  in  straight  lines,  upon  plain  white  paper  so 
thick  that  the  printing  cannot  be  distinguished  from  the 
back,  with  a  slender  line  between  each  name,  and  extend- 
ing sufficiently  to  the  left  of  the  names  to  easily  permit 
marking  before  each  name  a  cross  mark  (X),  and  in  the 
appropriate  place  the  words,  "vote  for  one"  (or  two,  or 
other  number,  as  the  case  may  be),  to  indicate  the  num- 
bers which  may  be  elected  to  each  office,  and  shall  be  sub- 
stantially in  the  form  prescribed  in  Section  220  (except 
that  the  order  in  which  the  several  offices  to  be  filled  are 
stated,  may  be  varied).  Provided,  That  nothing  in  the 
section  shall  be  construed  to  prohibit  the  names  of  the 
several  candidates  for  National,  State  and  County  offices, 
and  other  matters  to  be  voted  on  being  printed  in  the 
same  order  as  now  and  in  one  or  more  columns  on  the 
same  ballot. 


Sec.    220.    Form    of   Ballot. — Official    ballot,   election, 
A.  D.  190 —  (year  to  be  printed).  Precinct  No.  ... 
County   (Precinct  and  county  to  be  printed).     (Make  a 
cross  mark  (X)  before  the  name  of  the  candidate  of  your 
choice). 


For  Governor. 

Vote  for  one: 

William  Jones. 


John  Smith. 


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For  Secretary  of  State. 
Vote  for  one: 

William  King. 

Thomas  Moore. 

James  Simpson. 


For  Sheriff. 
Vote  for  one : 

Thomas  Jones. 

George  Smith. 
James  White. 


For  Representative  in  Gen- 
eral Assembly. 

Vote  for  one  (or  more  as 

the  case  may  be)  : 
William  Daniels. 

John  Doe. 


Constitutional  Amendment, 

Article ,  Section 

Yes. 

No. 

Constitutional  Amendment, 

Article ,  Section 

Yes. 

No.      

Sec.  221.  Ballots  To  Be  Fastened  Together.— All  bal- 
lots for  use  in  each  precinct  or  ward  shall  be  fastened 
together  in  convenient  numbers  in  books  or  blocks,  in 


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such  manner  that  each  ballot  may  be  detached  and  re- 
moved separately.  Each  ballot  shall  have  attached  to  it 
a  stub  with  perforated  lines  of  sufficient  size  to  enable 
one  of  the  inspectors  to  write  or  stamp  his  name  or  his 
initials  thereon,  and  so  attached  to  the  ballots  that  when 
the  same  is  folded  the  stub  can  be  detached  therefrom 
without  injury  to  the  ballot  or  exposing  the  contents 
thereof. 

Sec.  222.  Number  of  Ballot  for  Each  Vot4ng  Place. — 
There  shall  be  provided  for  each  voting  place  at  least 
one  hundred  ballots  for  each  fifty  registered  qualified 
electors  at  said  polling  place. 

Sec.  223.  Booths. — The  County  Commissioners  of  each 
county  (or  in  case  of  a  municipal  election,  the  Mayor  or 
other  chief  executive  officer),  shall  provide  at  each  polling 
place  a  room  or  covered  enclosure,  and  in  such  place  or 
covered  enclosure  shall  provide  booths  or  compartments, 
one  booth  or  compartment  for  each  one  hundred  or  frac- 
tion of  one  hundred  over  fifty  qualified  electors  registered 
for  that  election,  and  furnish  each  with  a  shelf  or  table 
for  the  convenience  of  electors  preparing  their  ballots. 
Each  booth  or  compartment  shall  be  so  arranged  that  it 
will  be  impossible  for  one  elector  at  a  shelf  or  table  in 
one  compartment  to  see  an  elector  at  a  shelf  or  table  in 
another  compartment  in  the  act  of  marking  his  ballot. 
Each  voting  table  or  shelf  shall  be  kept  supplied  with 
conveniences  for  marking  the  ballots. 

Sec.  224.  Public  Excluded  From  Voting  Place. — No 
person  shall  be  permitted  under  any  pretext  whatever  to 
come  within  fifteen  feet  of  any  door  or  window  of  any 
polling  room  from  the  opening  of  the  polls  until  the  com- 
pletion of  the  count  of  the  ballots  and  certificates  of  re- 
turns, except  as  herein  provided. 

Sec.  225.  Instructions  for  Electors. — The  Board  of 
County  Commissioners  (or  in  case  of  a  municipal  elec- 
tion, the  city  or  town  council)  of  each  county  shall  cause 
to  be  printed  in  large  type  on  cards,  instructions  for  the 
guidance  of  electors  in  preparing  their  ballots.  They 
shall  furnish  to  the  inspectors  twelve,  or  more  if  neces- 
sary, such  cards  for  each  precinct  or  ward,  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  inspectors  to  post  one  of  such  cards  in 


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each,  booth  or  compartment  for  the  preparation  of  bal- 
lots, and  not  less  than  three  in  prominent  places  else^ 
where  and  outside  of  the  polling  place  on  the  day  of  elec- 
tion. Said  cards  shall  be  printed  in  large,  clear  type, 
and  shall  contain  full  instructions  to  electors,  as  to  what 
shall  be  done.  First,  to  obtain  ballots  for  voting ;  second, 
to  prepare  the  ballot  for  deposit  in  the  ballot  box ;  third, 
to  obtain  a  new  ballot  in  the  place  of  one  accidentally 
spoiled. 

Sec.  226.  Not  To  Go  Within  Fifteen  Feet  of  Polling 
Places. — Except  as  electors  are  admitted,  one  at  a  time, 
to  vote,  and  except  the  Sheriff  or  his  deputy,  the  inspec- 
tors and  clerks  of  election,  and  as  many  electors  as  there 
may  be  booths  or  compartments,  no  person  shall  be  per- 
mitted within  fifteen  feet  of  the  polling  place.  No  Sheriff, 
deputy  sheriff  or  city  policeman  shall  enter  the  polling 
place  without  permission  from  a  majority  of  the  inspec- 
tors of  the  election,  except  to  cast  his  own  ballot. 

Sec.  227.  Challenges. — When  the  right  to  vote  of  any 
person  who  demands  to  be  permitted  to  vote  is  questioned 
by  an  elector,  the  said  challenge  shall  be  communicated 
to  the  inspectors  before  the  person  is  permitted  to  vote  by 
the  Sheriff,  or  some  other  officer  or  person  in  attendance 
and  in  charge  of  admission  to  the  polling  place,  when  his 
right  to  vote  must  be  determined  as  required  by  law. 

Sec.  228.  To  Occupy  Booths  Alone  and  for  Only  Five 
Minutes. — No  elector,  while  receiving,  preparing  and  cast- 
ing his  ballot,  shall  occupy  a  booth  or  compartment  for  a 
longer  time  than  five  minutes.  No  elector  shall  be  al- 
lowed to  occupy  a  booth  or  compartment  already  occu- 
pied by  another,  nor  to  speak  or  converse  with  any  one, 
except  as  herein  provided,  while  in  the  polling  place. 

Sec.  229.  To  Enter  Polling  Places  for  Voting  Only. — 
After  having  voted,  or  declined  or  failed  to  vote  within 
five  minutes,  the  elector  shall  immediately  withdraw  from 
the  place  and  go  beyond  the  prohibited  distance,  and  shall 
not  enter  the  polling  place  again. 

Sec.  230.  Voting. — Each  elector  upon  entering  the  poll- 
ing place  shall  be  given  one  ballot  by  the  inspectors. 
Before  delivering  the  ballot  to  the  elector,  at  least  one  of 


the  inspectors  shall  write  in  his  own  hand  his  initials  or 
•name  on  the  stub  attached  to  the  ballot.  On  receiving 
the  ballot,  the  elector  shall  forthwith,  and  without  leav- 
ing the  polling  place,  retire  alone  to  one  of  the  booths 
or  compartments  provided  for  that  purpose,  and  there 
prepare  his  ballot  by  marking  with  pen  and  ink  or  pencil, 
in  the  appropriate  margin  or  place,  a  cross  mark  "X" 
before  the  name  of  the  candidate  of  his  choice  for  each 
office  to  be  filled,  or  by  filling  in  the  name  of  the  candidate 
of  his  choice  in  the  blank  space  provided  therefor,  and 
marking  the  cross  mark  "X"  in  the  appropriate  margin, 
and  likewise  by  marking  the  cross  "X"  before  the  answer 
he  desires  in  case  of  a  constitutional  amendment  or  other 
question  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  people. 

Sec.  231.  Who  May  Have  Assistance  in  Preparing  Bal- 
lot.— Any  elector  applying  to  vote  who  by  reason  of  blind- 
ness or  the  loss  of  the  use  of  his  hand  or  hands  is  unable 
to  prepare  his  ballot,  may  have  the  assistance  of  the  in- 
spectors in  the  preparation  of  his  ballot,  who  shall  retire 
to  a  booth  or  compartment  with  the  elector  and  there  pre- 
pare the  elector's  ballot,  so  as  to  indicate  the  elector's 
declared  choice  of  candidates  as  to  each  office  to  be  filled, 
without  suggestion  or  interference  from  inspectors.  But 
in  all  cases  any  elector  before  retiring  to  the  booth  as  pro- 
vided in  this  section  may  have  one  of  the  clerks  of  the 
election  to  read  over  to  him  the  titles  of  the  offices  to  be 
filled  and  the  candidates  therefor. 

Sec.  232.  Elector  Declaring  His  Choice. — Before  any 
elector  applying  for  assistance  in  the  preparation  of  his 
ballot,  as  provided  for  in  the  preceding  section,  shall  be 
required  or  permitted  to  declare  his  choice  of  candidates, 
all  electors,  including  those  in  the  booths  or  compart- 
ments, after  voting  shall  be  required  to  withdraw  from 
the  voting  place. 

Sec.  233.  Spoiled  Ballots. — Any  elector  who  shall  by 
accident  or  mistake,  spoil  a  ballot  so  that  he  cannot  con- 
veniently or  safely  vote  the  same,  may  return  it  to  the 
inspectors,  who  shall  immediately  detach  the  stub  and 
destroy,  without  examination,  the  ballot  so  returned,  and 
shall  give  to  the  elector  another  ballot  in  lieu  thereof, 
but  in  no  case  shall  an  elector  be  furnished  with  more 
than  three  ballots.  In  no  case  shall  any  person  be  per- 


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mited  to  carry  a  ballot  outside  of  the  polling  room.  A 
record  shall  be  kept  by  the  clerk  of  election  of  all  ballots 
destroyed,  as  herein  provided  for. 

Sec.  234.  Depositing  Ballot. — After  preparing  his  bal- 
lot the  elector  shall  fold  the  same  so  as  to  conceal  the 
face  thereof  and  show  the  stub  thereto  attached  with  the 
name  or  initials  of  the  inspector,  and  hand  it  to  the  re- 
ceiving inspector,  who  shall  detach  the  stub  therefrom 
and  return  the  ballot  to  the  elector,  who  shall  deposit  the 
ballot  in  the  ballot  box  in  the  presence  of  the  inspectors. 
All  stubs  detached  from  ballots  as  provided  for  in  this 
section  shall  be  numbered  consecutively  and  filed  by  the 
inspectors. 

Sec.  235.  Marking  More  Names  Than  Persons  To  Be 
Elected. — If  the  elector  marks  more  names  than  there  are 
persons  to  be  elected  to  an  office,  or  if  for  any  reason  it 
it  impossible  to  determine  the  elector's  choice  for  any 
office  to  be  filled,  his  ballot  shall  not  be  counted  for  such 
office,  but  this  shall  not  vitiate  the  ballot,  so  far  as  prop- 
erly marked,  and  nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to  pre- 
vent any  elector  from  voting  for  any  qualified  person 
other  than  those  whose  names  are  printed  on  the  ballot. 

Sec.  236.  Clerk  To  Keep  List  of  Those  Voting.— When 
any  person  shall  have  voted,  his  name  shall  be  checked  on 
the  margin  of  the  page  opposite  thereto  upon  the  registra- 
tion books  by  one  of  the  inspectors,  and  the  clerk  of  elec- 
tion shall  keep  a  poll  list,  which  shall  contain  one  column 
headed  "names  of  voters/'  and  the  name  of  each  elector 
voting  shall  be  entered  by  the  clerk  in  such  column  as  he 
votes.  And  the  inspectors  of  election  shall  have  the  au- 
thority and  power  to  prevent  all  repeating,  and  to  pre- 
vent any  person  from  voting  a  second  time  at  the  same 
election  when  they  have  good  reason  to  believe  such  per- 
son has  already  voted.  They  shall  have  full  power  to 
refuse  to  allow  any  person  to  vote  who  is  not  a  qualified 
elector,  or  who  has  become  disqualified  for  any  cause  to 
vote  in  such  election  district.  They  may  also  prevent  any 
elector  from  consuming  more  time  than  five  minutes  in 
voting.  But  no  inspector  shall  examine,  read  or  handle 
the  ballot  being  voted  or  about  to  be  voted  by  an  elector, 
or  interfere  in  any  way  with  the  voting  of  any  elector 
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Sec.  237.  Inspectors  To  Maintain  Good  Order. — The  in- 
spectors shall  possess  full  authority  to  maintain  gopd 
order  at  the  polls,  and  enforce  obedience  to  their  lawful 
commands  during  an  election,  and  during  the  canvass 
and  estimate  of  the  votes. 

Sec.  238.  Deputy  Sheriff  at  Each  Polling  Place. — There 
shall  be  at  each  polling  place  in  each  election  district  a 
deputy  sheriff,  to  be  deputized  for  such  purpose  by  the 
Sheriff  of  the  county,  who  shall  be  required  to  be  present 
during  the  whole  time  that  the  polls  are  kept  open,  and 
until  the  election  is  completed,  who  shall  be  subjected  to 
all  lawful  commands  of  the  inspectors,  and  who  shall  see 
that  there  is  no  interruption  of  good  order.  Such  deputy 
shall  have  power,  when  necessary  to  maintain  the  peace, 
to  summon  a  posse  from  among  the  bystanders  to  aid 
him  in  maintaining  the  peace  and  good  order  at  the  polls. 

Sec.  239.  Sheriff  and  Other  Officers  Not  Allowed  in 
Polling  Places. — No  Sheriff,  deputy  sheriff,  policeman  or 
other  officer  shall  be  allowed  to  come  within  the  polling 
place  unless  summoned  into  the  same  by  a  majority  of  the 
inspectors.  On  failure  of  any  Sheriff,  deputy  sheriff, 
policeman  or  other  officer  to  comply  with  the  provisions 
of  this  section,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  inspectors  of  elec- 
tion, or  one  of  them,  to  make  affidavit  against  such  Sheriff, 
deputy  sheriff,  policeman  or  other  officer  for  their  arrest. 

Sec.  240.  Barrooms  To  Be  Closed. — All  barrooms,  sa- 
loons and  other  places  for  the  sale  of  liquors  by  retail 
shall  be  closed  at  6  o'clock  of  the  evening  preceding  the 
day  of  any  election,  and  shall  remain  closed  until  6 
o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  day  thereafter.  And  during 
the  time  aforesaid,  the  sale  of  all  intoxicating  liquors  is 
prohibited. 

Sec.  241.  Canvass  of  Ballots. — At  the  close  of  the  elec- 
tion at  each  polling  place  in  each  election  district  the 
inspectors  and  clerk  shall  immediately  proceed  to  open 
the  ballot  box,  and,  in  the  presence  of  the  public,  if  there 
be  any  present  who  desire  to  witness  said  canvass,  count 
the  ballots  therein,  and  continue  said  count  without  ad- 
journment or  interruption  until  the  same  is  completed. 
The  ballots  shall  be  first  counted,  and  if  the  number  of 
ballots  shall  exceed  the  number  of  persons  who  shall  have 


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Voted,  as  may  appear  by  the  poll  list  kept  by  the  clerk, 
and  by  the  stubs  detached  by  the  inspectors,  the  ballots 
shall  be  replaced  in  the  box  and  one  of  the  inspectors 
shall  publicly  draw  out  and  destroy,  unopened  and  unex- 
amined,  as  many  of  such  ballots  as  shall  be  equal  to  such 
excess.  If  two  or  more  ballots  shall  be  found  folded  to- 
gether, so  as  to  present  the  appearance  of  a  single  ballot, 
they  shall  be  laid  aside  until  the  count  of  the  ballots  is 
completed,  and  if,  upon  comparison  of  the  count,  and 
the  appearance  of  such  ballots,  a  majority  of  the  inspec- 
tors  shall  be  of  the  opinion  that  the  ballots  thus  folded 
together  were  voted  by  one  person,  such  ballots  shall  be 
destroyed. 

Sec.  242.  Proclamation  of  Result'  and  Returns. — The 
canvass  being  completed,  the  result  shall  be  publicly  pro- 
claimed. Duplicate  certificates  of  the  result  of  such  elec- 
tion shall  be  drawn  up  by  the  inspectors  or  clerk  at  each 
and  every  election  district,  which  shall  contain  in  words 
written  at  full  length  the  name  of  each  person  voted  for 
for  each  office,  and  the  number  of  votes  cast  for  each 
person  for  such  office,  and  if  any  question  shall  be  sub- 
mitted to  an  election,  such  certificate  shall  also  contain 
the  number  of  votes  cast  for  and  against  such  question, 
which  certificate  shall  be  signed  by  the  inspectors  and 
clerk,  and  one  of  such  certificates  shall  be  by  one  of  the 
inspectors  delivered,  without  delay,  securely  sealed,  to  the 
Supervisor  of  Eegistration,  and  the  other  to  the  County 
Judge  of  the  county;  and  the  poll  lists  and  oaths  of  the 
inspectors  and  clerks,  together  with  all  ballot  boxes,  bal 
lots,  ballot  stubs,  memoranda  and  papers  of  all  kinds  used 
by  the  inspectors  and  clerk  in  conducting  such  election 
shall  also  be  transmitted,  sealed  up  by  the  inspectors,  with 
the  certificates  of  the  result  of  the  election,  to  the  Super- 
visor of  Kegistration,  to  be  filed  in  his  office. 

See.  243.  Canvass  of  Returns. — On  the  sixth  day  after 
any  election,  or  sooner  if  the  returns  shall  have  been  re- 
ceived, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Judge  and  the 
Supervisor  of  Registration  to  meet  at  the  office  of  the  said 
Supervisor  of  Eegistration,  and  take  to  their  assistance 
the  chairman  or  other  member  of  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners,  and  in  case  of  absence,  sickness,  refusal 
to  act,  or  other  disability  of  the  County  Judge  or  Super- 
visor of  Registration,  another  member  of  the  Board  of 


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County  Commissioners,  who  shall  be  designated  by  the 
Chairman  of  said  board,  shall  act  in  his  place,  who  shall 
constitute  and  be  the  County  Canvassing  Board  of  Elec- 
tions, and  they  shall  publicly  proceed  to  canvass  the 
vote  given  for  the  several  offices,  and  the  persons 
as  shown  by  the  returns  on  file  in  the  offices  of  such 
County  Judge  and  Supervisor  of  Registration.  Such 
canvass  shall  be  made  solely,  exclusively  and  entirely 
from  the  returns  of  certificates  of  the  inspectors  in  each 
election  district,  as  signed  and  filed  by  them  with  the 
County  Judge  and  Supervisor  of  Eegistration  respec- 
tively, and  in  no  case  shall  the  Board  of  County  Can- 
vassers change  or  vary  in  any  manner  the  number  of  votes 
cast  for  the  candidates,  respectively,  in  any  polling  place 
in  the  county,  as  shown  by  the  returns  of  the  inspectors 
of  such  polling  place. 

Sec.  244.  Certificate  of  Result  of  Canvass.— They  shall 
compile  the  result  of  the  election,  as  shown  by  said  inspec- 
tors' returns,  and  shall  then  make  and  sign  duplicate  cer- 
tificates containing  in  words  and  figures,  written  at  full 
length,  the  whole  number  of  votes  given  for  each  office, 
the  names  of  the  persons  for  whom  such  votes  were  given 
for  such  office,  and  the  number  of  votes  given  for  each  per- 
son for  such  office.  Such  certificates  shall  be  recorded  by 
the  Supervisor  of  Eegistration  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by 
him  for  that  purpose,  which  book  shall  be  furnished  by 
the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  and  shall  be  labeled 
"Keoord  of-  Elections  Keturns,"  and  one  of  such  duplicates 
shall  immediately  be  transmitted  by  mail  or  by  express  to 
the  Secretary  of  State  and  the  other  to  the  Governor  of 
the  State.  The  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall  transmit 
by  mail  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  immediately  after  the 
County  Canvassing  Board  shall  have  canvassed  the  re- 
turns for  State  and  county  officers,  a  list  giving  the  names 
of  all  county  officers  elected,  the  office  for  which  each  was 
elected,  with  the  postoffice  address  of  such  county  officers- 
elect,  in  their  respective  counties. 

Sec.  245.  Supervisor  of  Registration  To  Give  Certifi- 
cates to  Persons  Elected. — In  case  any  county  officer  shall 
be  elected  at  any  election,  the  Supervisor  of  Registration 
shall  give  to  the  person  who  shall  be  elected  a  certificate 
of  his  election,  and  the  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall 

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give  to  any  person  desiring  a  copy  of  such,  returns  from 
the  record  a  certified  copy  thereof,  or  of  such,  part  thereof 
as  may  be  desired,  upon  payment  to  him  of  the  customary 
fees  for  copying  and  certifying  papers  in  the  office  of  the 
Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court. 

Sec.  246.  When  Canvass  Made  in  Certain  Counties. — 
For  the  counties  of  Monroe,  Dade,  Brevard,  Manatee, 
Osceola  and  DeSoto,  in  case  the  returns  of  the  election 
held  in  such  counties  shall  not  be  received  by  the  Judge 
and  Supervisor  of  Eegistration  within  six  (6)  days  after 
the  close  of  any  election,  the  county  canvass  shall  be  made 
as  soon  thereafter  as  said  returns  shall  be  received  by  the 
County  Judge  or  Supervisor  of  Registration,  and  within 
twenty  days  after  said  election. 

Sec.  247.  Persons  Receiving  Highest  Number  of  Votes 
Elected. — The  person  who  shall  receive  the  highest  num- 
ber of  votes  cast  for  one  office  shall  be  elected  to  such 
office.  In  case  two  or  more  persons  shall  receive  an  equal 
and  the  highest  number  of  votes  for  the  same  office,  an- 
other election  therefor  shall  be  held  upon  the  order  of 
the  Governor,  as  in  other  cases  of  special  elections. 

Sec.  248.  Board  of  State  Canvassers. — On  the  thirty- 
fifth  day  after  the  holding  of  any  general  or  special  elec- 
tion for  any  State  officer,  member  of  the  Legislature  or 
Representative  in  Congress,  or  sooner  if  the  returns  shall 
have  been  received  from  the  several  counties  wherein 
elections  shall  have  been  held,  the  Secretary  of  State,  the 
Comptroller  and  the  Attorney  General,  or  any  two  of 
them,  together  with  any  other  administrative  officer  of  the 
executive  department  who  may  be  designated  by  them, 
shall  meet  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  pur- 
suant to  notice  to  be  given  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  and 
they  shall  be  a  Board  of  State  Canvassers,  and  as  such 
shall  proceed  to  canvass  the  returns  of  said  election  and 
determine  and  declare  who  shall  have  been  elected  for 
such  office,  or  as  such  member,  as  shown  by  such  returns. 

Sec.  249.  False  and  Fraudulent  Returns. — If  any  re- 
turns shall  be  shown  or  shall  appear  to  be  so  irregular, 
false  or  fraudulent  that  the  board  shall  be  unable  to  de- 
termine the  true  vote  for  any  such  officer  or  member,  they 
shall  so  certify;  and  shall  not  include  such  returns  in 


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their  determination,  canvass  and  declaration.  And  the 
Secretary  of  State  shall  file  and  preserve  in  his  office 
all  such  returns,  together  with  such  other  documents  and 
papers  as  may  have  fyeen  received  by  him,  or  by  said 
Board  of  Canvassers.  The  said  Board  of  State  Canvass- 
ers shall  canvass  the  returns  for  Presidential  Electors 
and  Representatives  to  the  Congress  of  the  United  States 
separately  and  distinct  from  their  canvass  of  the  returns 
for  the  State  officers  and  members  of  the  Legislature. 

Sec.  250.  What  Certificates  To  Contain.— They  shall 
make  and  sign  separate  and  distinct  certificates  of  the 
result  of  the  election  for  national  officers  and  for  said  State 
officers,  which  certificates  shall  contain,  in  words  writ- 
ten at  full  length,  the  whole  number  of  votes  given  for 
each  person  for  each  office,  and  for  member  of  the  Legis- 
lature and  State  Senator,  and  therein  declare  the  result, 
which  certificates,  the  one  including  the  result  of  the 
election  for  Presidential  Electors  and  Representatives  to 
Congress,  and  the  other  including  the  result  of  the  elec- 
tion for  State  officers,  members  of  the  Legislature  and 
State  Senators,  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  Sec- 
retary of  State,  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him  for  that  pur- 
pose. And  the  Secretary  of  State  shall  cause  a  certified 
copy  of  each  of  said  certificates  to  be  published  once  in 
one  or  more  newspapers  printed  at  the  capital  of  the 
State. 

Sec.  251.  Secretary  of  State  To  Make  Cert4ficate  and 
Transmit  to  Person  Elected. — The  Secretary  of  State 
shall  make  and  transmit  to  each  person  chosen  to  any 
State  office,  immediately  after  the  State  canvass,  a  certifi- 
cate showing  the  number  of  votes  cast  for  each  person  for 
such  office  at  such  election,  which  certificate  shall  be 
prima  facie  evidence  of  his  election  to  such  office. 

Sec.  252.  Presidential  Electors  and  Representatives  to 
Conqress. — When  any  person  shall  be  elected  to  the  office 
of  Elector  of  President  and  Vice-President,  or  Represent- 
ative in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  the  Governor 
shall  make  out,  si-gn  and  cause  to  be  sealed  with  the  seal 
of  the  State,  and  transmit  to  such  person,  a  certificate  of 
his  election  to  such  office. 

Sec.  253.  Blanks  and  Forms,  and  Election  Laws. — The 
Secretary  of  State  is  hereby  required  to  cause  to  be  pre- 


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pared  all  proper  blanks  and  forms  for  the  use  of  inspec- 
tors of  election  and  for  county  canvassers,  conformable 
to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  he  shall,  at  least 
sixty  days  before  any  general  election,  transmit  to  the 
Supervisor  of  Registration  of  each  county  a  sufficient 
number  thereof  for  the  several  polling  places  in  each  elec- 
tion district  within  each  county;  and  shall  also  have 
printed  a  sufficient  number  of  the  laws  regulating  general 
elections  to  supply  the  several  counties  and  polling  places 
in  each  election  district  in  said  counties,  and  transmit  the 
same  with  the  forms  aforesaid;  and  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration  in  each  county  shall  furnish  to  the  inspec- 
tors of  election  at  each  polling  place  at  each  election  dis- 
trict in  such  county  a  sufficient  number  of  such  forms  and 
copies  of  election  laws  for  the  use  of  such  inspectors  at 
the  election. 

Sec.  254.  Temporary  Change  of  Polling  Place  in  Case 
of  an  Epidemic. — Nothing  in  this  chapter  shall  be  so  con- 
strued as  to  prohibit  the  County  Commissioners  in  any 
county  at  any  time,  in  case  an  epidemic  shall  exist  in  any 
city  or  town  in  such  county,  at  the  time  of  holding  any 
election  in  such  county,  from  establishing  at  any  safe  and 
convenient  point  outside  of  such  infected  locality  proper 
additional  polling  places  for  the  electors  resident  in  the 
infected  district,  at  which  polling  places  the  electors  of 
such  infected  district  shall  be  allowed  to  vote,  if  properly 
qualified  otherwise,  and  in  such  cases  the  registration 
books  belonging  in  such  infected  districts  shall  be  applica- 
ble to  and  shall  be  used  at  such  polling  places  thus  estab- 
lished. 

PENALTIES. 

3812.  Penalty  for  Destroying  Booth. — Any  person  who 
wilfully,    during   or  before   an   election,    removes,    tears 
down,  or  destroys,  or  defaces  any  booth  or  compartment, 
or  other  convenience  provided  for  the  purpose  of  enabling 
the  elector  to  prepare  his  ballot,  or  any  card  printed  for 
the  instruction  of   electors,  shall   be   fined  not  less  than 
ten  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars. 

3813.  Saloons  To  Be  Closed. — All  barrooms,  saloons, 
and  other  places  for  the  sale  of  liquors  by  retail,  shall  be 
closed  at  6  o'clock  of  the  evening  preceding  the  day  of 


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any  election,  and  shall  remain  closed  until  6  o'clock  in 
the  morning  of  the  day  thereafter.  And  during  the  time 
aforesaid,  the  sale  of  all  intoxicating  liquors  is  prohibited. 
Any  person  who  shall  be  convicted  of  a  violation  of  this 
section  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  less  than  one  hun- 
derd  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprison- 
ment not  less  than  three  months  nor  more  than  six 
months. 

3814.  Penalty  for  Deceiving  Elector  in  Preparing  Bal- 
lot.— Any  inspector  who  shall  wilfully  deceive  any  elector 
in  preparing  his  ballot  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be 
imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one  nor  more 
than  five  years. 

3815.  (2784.)      Changing  Elector's  Ballot.— Whoever 
fraudulently  and  deceitfully  changes  the  vote  or  ballot  of 
any  elector,  by  which  such  elector  shall  be  prevented  from 
voting  such  ballot,  or  for  such  person  as  he  intended, 
shall   be   punished   by   imprisonment   not   exceeding   six 
months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

3816.  Penalty  for  Disclosing  How  an  Elector  Votes. — 
Any  inspector  who  shall  disclose  how  any  elector  may 
have  voted,  unless  upon  a  trial  in  a  court  of  competent 
jurisdiction  he  may  be  so  required,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

3817.  (2782).     Calling  Out  Militia  on  Election  Day.— 
If  any  officer  or  other  person  shall  call  out  or  order  out 
any  of  the  militia  of  this  State  to  appear  and  exercise 
on  any  day  during  an  election,  except  in  cases  of  invasion 
or  insurrection,  or  except  in  obedience  to  some  civil  mag- 
istrate to  suppress  riots  or  to  enforce  the  law,  he  shall  be 
fined  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  and  be  deprived 
of  his  office. 

3818.  Penalty  for  Neglect  of  Duty  ~by  Deputy  Sheriff, 
or  Other  Officer. — Any  deputy  sheriff  or  other  officer  who 
shall  wilfully  neglect  or  refuse  to  perform  any  duty  im- 
posed on  him  by  the  laws  of  Florida  relating  to  elections 
at  the  time  or  within  the  time  therein  specified,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  or  not  more  than  five  hundred  dollars 
or  by  imprisonment  not  more  than  six  months. 


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3819.  Violation  of  Duty  ty  County  Canvassing  Board. 
— Any  member  of  the  County  Canvassers  of  Election  who 
shall  wilfully  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  law  relating 
to  canvassing  the  result  of  any  election  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  fine  not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars 
nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or  imprisonment  in 
the  State  penitentiary  not  more  than  three  years. 

3820.  Supervisor  of  Registration  Failing  To  Deliver 
Books  and  Papers  to  Successor. — Any  Supervisor  of  Keg- 
istration  who  wilfully  fails  or  refuses  to  promptly  com- 
ply with  the  demand  "of  his  successor  for  the  delivery  of 
the  registration  books  and  papers  and  blanks  connected 
with  or  belonging  to  his  office,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
not  to  exceed  one  thousand  dollars  or  by  imprisonment 
not  exceeding  eix  months. 

3821.  District  Registration  Officer  Failing  To  Deliver 
Books  and  Papers. — Any  district  registration  officer  who 
shall  wilfully  fail  or  refuse  to  promply  comply  with  the 
demands  of  the  Supervisor  of  ^Registration  to  deliver  up 
the  registration  books  and  papers,  shall  be  punished  by 
fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  doUars  or  imprisonment 
not  exceeding  six  months. 

3822.  Taw  Collector  Failing  to  Report  the  Poll  Tax 
Paid  Him. — Any  Tax  Collector  or  any  deputy  tax  collec- 
tor who  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  comply  with  Section  204, 
or  with  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  election  law,  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars 
or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one  year. 

3823.  Penalty  -for  False  Certificate. — Any  person  who 
shall  falsely  make  or  fraudulently  destroy  any  certificate 
of  nomination  or  any  part  thereof,  or  file  any  certificate 
of  nomination,  knowing  the  same,  or  any  part  thereof,  to 
be  false,  or  suppress  any  nomination  which  has  been  duly 
filed,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  peni- 
tentiary not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  five  years. 

3824.  Secretary  of  State  Failing  To  CerUfy  Nomina- 
tion.— The  Secretary  of  State  who  shall  wilfully  fail  or 
refuse  to  certify  the  nomination  as  provided  by  law  shall 
be  fined  not  more  than  one  thousand  dollars;   and  in 


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event  of  such  failure  or  refusal,  such  certificate  shall  be 
made  by  the  State  Comptroller. 

3825.  Penalty  for  Officers  After  Being  Sworn  In. — 
Any  officer  or  officers  after  being  sworn  in  who  wilfully 
and  knowingly  neglects,  fails  or  refuses  to  perform  the 
duties  prescribed  in  the  laws  regulating  election,  shall  be 
fined  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dol- 
lars, or  by  imprisonment  not  less  than  sixty  days,  nor 
more  than  six  months,  unless  otherwise  provided  by  law. 

3826.  (2383.)     Corruptly,  Etc.,  Influencing  Elector.— 
Whoever   by  bribery,   menace,   threat    or    other   corrupt 
means  or  device  whatsoever,  either  directly  or  indirectly, 
attempts  to  influence  any  elector  in  this  State  in  giving 
his  vote  or  ballot  or  to  deter  him  from  giving  the  same, 
or  disturbs  or  injures  him  in  the  free  exercise  of  the  right 
of  suffrage  at  any  election  within  this  State,  shall  be 
punished  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six  months  or 
by  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars. 

3827.  (2785.)     Destroying  Ballots.— Whoever   on   any 
day  between  the  commencement  of  any  .election  and  the 
close  of  the  canvass  thereof  by  the  inspectors,  fraudulent- 
ly destroys  any  of  the  ballots  given  and  received  at  said 
election,  or  takes  away  or  abstracts  from  any  ballot  box 
any  of  the  ballots  so  given  or  received,  or  puts  into  such 
ballot  box  any  ballots  except  such  as  are  properly  voted 
by  the  electors,  or  in  any  manner  wilfully  intermingles 
with  the  ballots  which  shall  have  been  voted  by  the  elec- 
tors any  other  ballots,  or  tickets,  which  shall  have  not 
been  duly  received  by  the  inspectors  during  the  election, 
shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison  not 
exceeding  one  year  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred 
dollars. 

3828.  (2786.)     False  Swearing  to  Elector's  Qualifica- 
tions.— Whoever   is   guilty   of  wilful    and   corrupt   false 
swearing,  or  affirming,  when  interrogated  as  to  his  quali- 
fications as  an  elector,  or  when  his  testimony  may  be 
required  in  any  contested  election,  or  whoever  wilfully 
and  corruptly  procures  another  person  to  swear  or  affirm 
falsely  as  aforesaid,  shall  suffer  the  pains  and  penalties 
of  perjury. 


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3829.  Making  False  Declaration  To  Secure  Assistance 
in  Preparing  Ballot. — Any  person  who  makes  a  false  dec- 
laration under  the  provisions  of  law  providing  for  assist- 
ance in  the  preparation  of  his  ballot  in  any  election  shall 
be  imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one  nor 
more  than  five  years. 

3830.  (2787.)     Casting  Illegal  Ballot.— Whoever  casts 
knowingly  an  illegal  vote  at  any  election  in  this  State 
held  according  to  law,  -shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment 
in  the  State  prison  not  exceeding  six  months,  or  by  fine 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

(Applies  to  municipal  elections. — Ex  parte  Senior,  37 
Fla.,  1;  19  So.  Eep.  652.) 

3831.  (2788.)     Casting  More  Than  One  Ballot.— Who- 
ever casts  more  than  one  ballot  at  the  same  election  shall 
be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  three  months, 
or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

3832.  (2789.)     Registered  Voter  Changing  Name. — No 
regisered  voter  shall  call  himself  or  pass  by  anv  other 
name  than  the  name  by  which  he  is  registered.    Nothing 
in  this  section  shall  prevent  the  alteration  of  names  by 
the  Circuit  Court  as  provided  by  law,  and  when  the  name 
of  any  one  is  changed  by  the  order  of  said  court  he  shall 
notify  the  County  Commissioners  of  the  fact  that  his 
name  has  been  changed.    Any  one  violating  this  section 
shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars,  and  upon  con- 
viction a  second  time  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  State 
prison  not  exceeding  one  year. 

3833.  (2790.)  Betting  on  Result   of  Election.— Who- 
ever makes  or  becomes  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in 
any  bet  or  wager,  the  result  of  which  shall  depend  upon 
any  election,  shall  be  punished  by  fine  not  exceeding  three 
hundred  dollars:     Provided,  Such  bet  or  wager  or  the 
becoming  interested  therein,  shall  occur  on  or  before  the 
day  of  holding  such  election. 

3834.  Failure  To  Assist*  Deputy  Sheriffs  at  Polls  — 
Any  person,  when  summoned  or  called  upon  by  the  Sheriff 
or  deputy  sheriff,  who  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  assist  him  in 
maintaining  the  peace  and  good  order  at  the  polls  shall 


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be  fined  in  a  sum  not  to  exceed  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  to  exceed  six  months. 

3835.  Ballot  Not  To  Be  Seen;  and  Other  Offenses.— 
Any  elector  who  shall,  except  as  provided  by  law,  allow 
his  ballot  to  be  seen  by  any  person,  or  who  shall  take  or 
remove  or  attempt  to  take  or  remove  any  ballot  from  the 
polling  place  before  the  close  of  the  polls,  or  place  any 
mark  upon  his  ballot  by  which  it  may  be  identified,  or 
take  into  the  election  booth  any  mechanical  device,  ticket 
or  memorandum,  printed  or  written,  other  than  the  offi- 
cial ballot  or  ticket  to  enable  him  to  mark  said  ballot 
or  ticket,  or  any  person  who  shall  interfere  with  any  elec- 
tor when  inside  of  the  polling  place  or  when  marking  his 
ballot,  or  unduly  influence  or  attempt  to  unduly  influence 
any  elector  in  the  preparation  of  his  ballot,  or  any  elector 
who  shall  remain  longer  than  the  specified  time  allowed 
by  law  in  the  booth  or  compartment  after  having  been 
notified  that  his  time  has  expired,  or  who  shall  endeavor 
to  induce  any  elector  to  show  how  he  marks  or  has  marked 
his  ballot,  or  aids  or  attempts  to  aid  any  elector  by  any 
means  of  any  mechanical  device  whatever  in  marking  his 
ballot,  or  shall  print  or  procure  to  be  printed  or  have  in 
his  possession    any    copy  of   any    ballot    prepared  to  be 
voted,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  more  than  three 
months.    Any  ballot  marked  by  the  elector  for  identifica- 
tion shall  be  rejected. 

3836.  To  Prevent  the  Use  of  Money  for  Political  Purposes 
by  Corporations. — No  foreign  or  non-resident  corporation 
or  corporations  organized  under  the  laws  of  the  United 
States  doing  business  in  this  State,  nor  any  domestic  corpo- 
ration, shall  pay  or  contribute,  or  offer,  consent  or  agree  to 
pay  or  contribute,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  money,  prop- 
erty or  thing  of  value  to  any  political  party,  organization, 
committee  or  individual  for  any  political  purpose  what- 
soever, or  for  the  purpose  of  influencing  legislation  of  any 
kind,  or  to  promote  or  defeat  the  candidacy  of  any  person 
for  nomination,  appointment  or  election  to  any  political 
office.     Any  officer,  employee,  agent  or  attorney  or  other 
representative  of  any  corporation,  acting  for  and  in  be- 
half of  such  corporation,  who  shall  violate  this  section 
shall  be  punished  upon  conviction  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  one  thousand  nor  more  than  ten  thousand  dollars, 


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or  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison  for  a  period  of 
not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  five  years,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court 
or  judge  before  whom  such  conviction  is  had ;  and  the  cor- 
poration, if  a  domestic  corporation,  is  dissolved,  if  after 
a  proper  proceeding  upon  quo  warranto,  in  either  the  Cir- 
cuit or  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  to  be  prosecuted  by 
the  Attorney-General  of  the  State,  the  court  shall  find 
and  give  judgment  that  this  section  has  been  violated  as 
charged,  and  if  a  foreign  or  non-resident  corporation,  its 
right  to  do  business  in  this  State  ceases.  The  violation 
of  this  section  by  any  officer,  employee,  agent,  attorney 
or  other  representative  of  a  corporation,  shall  be  prima 
facie  evidence  that  such  officer,  employee,  agent,  attorney 
or  other  representative  of  such  corporation,  is  acting  for 
and  in  behalf  of  such  corporation. 

3837.  Penalty  -for  Aiding  or  Abetting. — Any  person  or 
persons  who  shall  aid,  abet,  or  advise  a  violation  of  the 
preceding  section  shall  be  punished  in  like  manner  as  the 
principal  offender. 

3838.  Where  Violation  Is  To  Be  Prosecuted. — Viola- 
tions of  the  two  preceding  sections  shall  be  prosecuted  in 
the  county  where  such  payment  or  contribution  is  made. 

3839.  Threats  of  Employers  to  Control  Votes  of  Em- 
ployees.— It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons, 
firm,  joint  stock  company,  association  or  corporation,  or- 
ganized, chartered  or  incorporated  by  and  under  the  laws 
of  this  State,  either  as  owner  or  lessee,  having  persons  in 
their  service  as  employees,  to  discharge  any  employee  or 
employees  or  to  threaten  to  discharge  any  employee  or 
employees  in  their  service  for  voting  or  not  voting  in  any 
election,  State,  county  or  municipal,  for  any  person  as 
candidate  or  measure  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  people. 
Any  person  or  persons,  firm,  joint  stock  company,  associa- 
tion or  corporation,  organized,  chartered  or  incorporated 
under  the  laws  of  this  State,  or  operated  in  this  State  vio- 
lating any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  pay  a  fine 
of  not  more  than  one  thousand  dollars. 

3840.  Acting  as  Officer  or  Agent. — Any  person  acting 
as  an  officer  or  agent  of  any  firm,  joint  stock  companies, 
associations  or  corporations  of  any  kind  and  character 


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hereinbefore  described,  or  any  one  of  them  who  makes 
or  executes  any  notice,  order,  or  threat  of  the  kind  herein- 
before forbidden  in  the  next  preceding  section,  shall  pay  a 
fine  of  not  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  be  impris- 
oned not  more  than  six  months. 

3841.  Illegal  Voting  and  Unlawful  Acts  in  Primary 
Elections. — If  any  person  who  is  not  entitled  to  vote  un- 
der the  primary  election  laws,  vote  at  any  primary  elec- 
tion held  thereunder,  or  vote  more  than  once,  or  personate 
another  person,  or  in  any  name  other  than  his  own  legal 
name,  or  in  any  manner  disturb  the  orderly  proceedings 
of  any  such  election,  or  intimidate  or  in  any  manner  at- 
tempt to  intimidate  or  deter  from  voting,  or  impose,  or 
attempt  to  impose,  on  any  duly  authorized  voter,  a  ticket 
or  ballot  other  than  it  appears  on  its  face  to  be,  such  per- 
son or  persons  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars 
or  be  imprisoned  ffor  not  more  than  three  months. 


CHAPTER  6471— (No.  51). 

AN  ACT  Relating  to  the  Election  of  United  States  Sena- 
tors and  to  the  Appointment  of  Such  Senators  When 
Vacancies  Happen  in  the  Representation  of  This  State 
in  the  Senate  of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States. 

Whereas  the  following  has  been  (proclaimed  as  having 
been)  duly  adopted  as  Article  XVII  of  the  Amendments 
to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States, 

"Resolved  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 
of  the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled 
(two-thirds  of  each  house  concurring  therein),  That  in 
lien  of  the  first  paragraph  of  Section  3  of  Article  1,  of  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  in  lieu  of  so  much 
of  paragraph  two  of  the  same  section  as  relates  to  the 
filling  of  vacancies,  the  following  be  proposed  as  an 
amendment  to  the  Constitution,  which  shall  be  valid  to 
all  intents  and  purposes  as  part  of  the  Constitution  when 
ratified  by  the  Legislatures  of  three-fourths  of  the  States : 

The  Senate  of  the  United  States  shall  be  composed  of 
two  Senators  from  each  State,  elected  by  the  people 


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thereof,  for  six  years;  and  each  Senator  shall  have  one 
vote.  The  electors  in  each  State  shall  have  the  qualifica- 
tions requisite  for  electors  of  the  most  numerous  branch 
of  the  State  Legislature. 

When  vacancies  happen  in  the  representation  of  any 
State  in  the  Senate,  the  executive  authority  of  such  State 
shall  issue  writs  of  election  to  fill  such  vacancies;  Pro- 
vided, That  the  Legislature  of  any  State  may  empower 
the  executive  thereof  to  make  temporary  appointments 
until  the  people  fill  the  vacancies  as  the  Legislature  may 
direct. 

This  amendment  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  affect 
the  election  or  term  of  any  Senator  chosen  before  it  be- 
comes valid  as  part  of  the  Constitution. 

And  whereas  it  is  the  purpose  of  this  State  to  conform 
to  the  requirements  of  such  fundamental  law,  therefore, 

Be  It  Enacted  ~by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida : 

Section  1.  The  Senators  from  Florida  in  the  Congress 
of  the  United  States  shall  be  elected  at  the  general  elec- 
tions in  the  State  held  next  preceding  the  expiration  of 
the  terms  of  office  of  such  Senators,  and  such  elections 
shall  conform  as  near  as  practicable  to  the  methods  and 
means  provided  for  the  election  of  State  officers. 

Sec.  2.  Should  a  vacancy  happen  in  the  representation 
of  this  State  in  the  Senate  of  the  Congress  of  the  United 
States,  the  Governor  shall  issue  writs  of  election  to  fill 
such  vacancy  at  the  next  general  election;  and  the  Gov- 
ernor may  make  temporary  appointments  until  the  va- 
cancy is  filled  by  election. 

Approved  May  26,  1913. 


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PRIMARY  ELECTION 
LAW. 


CHAPTER  6469— (No.  49). 

AN  ACT  to  Provide  For  and  Regulate  Primary  Elec- 
tions. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida : 

Section  1.  The  nomination  of  all  candidates  for  all 
elective  State,  Congressional  and  County  offices,  for 
United  States  Senator,  and  for  the  election  of  members 
of  the  State,  Congressional  and  County  Executive  Com- 
mittees, by  all  political  parties  as  defined  by  this  Act, 
shall  be  made  in  the  manner  provided  in  this  Act,  and 
not  otherwise. 

The  name  of  no  person  nominated  by  a  party  required 
hereunder  to  make  nominations  of  candidates  shall  be 
placed  upon  the  official  ballot  to  be  voted  at  any  gen 
eral  election  as  a  candidate  for  any  office,  when  provision 
is  made  herein  for  nominating  candidates  for  such  of- 
fice, unless  such  person  shall  have  been  nominated  for 
such  office  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  2.  A  political  party  which,  at  the  general  elec- 
tion for  State  and  County  officers  then  next  preceding 
a  primary,  polled  more  than  five  per  cent  of  the  entire 
vote  cast  in  the  State  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  political 
party  within  the  meaning  of  this  Act,  within  the  State, 
and  shall  nominate  all  candidates  provided  for  in  this 
Act  under  the  provisions  hereof. 

A  political  party  which,  at  the  general  election  for 
State  and  County  officers  then  next  preceding  a  primary, 
cast  more  than  five  per  cent  of  the  entire  vote  cast  with- 
in any  Congressional  District,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a 
political  party  within  the  meaning  of  this  Act,  within 
such  Congressional  District,  and  shall  nominate  its  can- 


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didate  for  Representative  in  Congress  within  said  Dis 
trict,  under  the  provisions  hereof. 

A  political  party  which,  at  the  general  election  for 
State  and  County  officers  then  next  preceding  a  primary, 
cast  more  than  five  per  cent  of  the  entire  vote  cast  in 
any  county,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  political  party 
within  the  meaning  of  this  Act,  within  such  County,  and 
shall  nominate  all  elective  County  officers  in  said  County 
under  the  provisions  hereof. 

Sec.  3.  In  determining  the  total  vote  of  a  political 
party,  whenever  required  by  this  Act,  the  test  shall  be 
the  total  vote  cast  by  such  political  party  for  its  candi- 
date who  received  the  greatest  number  of  votes. 

Sec.  4.  Primary  elections  herein  provided  for  shall  be 
held  at  the  regular  polling  places  established  for  the 
purposes  of  holding  general  elections. 

Sec.  5.  A  primary  election  shall  be  held,  on  the  first 
Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  June  of  every  year 
in  which  a  general  election  is  held,  for  the  nomination 
of  candidates  by  all  political  parties. 

Sec.  6.  The  following  committees  shall  constitute  the 
Executive,  or  Central,  or  Managing  Committees  of  each 
political  party,  viz.:  A  State  Executive  Committee,  a 
Congressional  Executive  Committee  for  each  Congression- 
al District,  and  a  County  Executive  Committee  for  each 
County ;  provided,  however,  that  nothing  herein  contained 
shall  prevent  a  political  party  from  electing  or  appoint- 
ing, in  accordance  with  its  practice,  other  committees. 

See.  7.  The  State  Executive  Committee  shall  consist 
of  one  member  from  each  County  in  the  State,  who  shall 
be  elected  for  two  years  at  the  primary  held  in  the  year 
1914,  and  every  two  years  thereafter.  The  members  of 
said  Excutive  Committee  shall,  within  thirty  days  after 
their  election,  meet  and  organize  by  electing  from  among 
their  number  a  chairman  and  such  other  officers  as  they 
may  deem  necessary  or  expedient.  The  outgoing  chair- 
man of  the  State  Executive  Committee  of  each  party 
shall,  not  less  than  ten  days  before  the  first  meeting, 


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notify  each  newly  elected  member  of  said  committee  of 
the  time  and  place  of  said  meeting. 

The  Congressional  Executive  Committee  shall  consist 
of  one  member  from  each  County  in  the  Congressional 
District,  who  shall  be  elected  for  two  years  at  the  pri- 
mary held  in  the  year  1914,  and  every  two  years  there- 
after. The  members  of  said  committee  shall,  within 
thirty  days  after  their  election,  meet  and  organize  by 
electing  from  among  their  number  a  chairman  and  such 
other  officers  as  they  may  deem  necessary  or  expedient. 
The  outgoing  chairman  of  the  Congressional  Executive 
Committee  of  each  party  shall,  not  less  than  ten  days 
before  the  first  meeting,  notify  each  newly  elected  member 
of  said  committee  of  the  time  and  place  of  said  meet- 
ing. 

The  County  Executive  Committee  of  each  political  party 
shall  consist  of  one  member  from  each  election  precinct 
within  the  County,  who  shall  be  elected  for  two  years 
at  the  primary  held  in  the  year  1914,  and  every  two 
years  thereafter.  The  members  of  said  committee  shall, 
within  thirty  days  after  their  election,  meet  at  the  County 
seat  and  organize  by  electing  from  among  their  num- 
ber a  chairman  and  such  other  officers  as  they  may  deem 
necessary  or  expedient. 

Each  committee  and  its  officers  shall  have  the  powers 
usually  exercised  by  such  committees  and  by  the  officers 
thereof,  not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 
Each  of  the  several  executive  committees  herein  provided 
for  shall  have  the  power  to  appoint  from  its  own  mem- 
bership proper  and  necessary  sub-committees.  Proxies 
may  be  allowed  by  executive  committees,  but  each  proxy 
shall  reside  in  the  same  election  precinct,  in  the  case 
of  a  County  Executive  Committee,  or  in  the  same  County 
in  the  case  of  a  Congressional  or  State  Executive  Com- 
mittee, as  the  committeeman  represented  by  the  proxy. 

Sec.  8.  The  expenses  of  holding  the  primary  elections 
herein  provided  for,  including  the  expenses  of  preparing 
all  ballots,  blanks,  and  other  supplies  to  be  used  at  any 
primary  election,  and  all  expenses  necessarily  incurred 
in  the  preparation  for  or  the  conduct  of  such  primary 
election,  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  County 
or  the  State,  as  the  case  may  be,  in  the  same  manner, 


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with  like  effect,  and  by  the  same  officers  as  in  the  case 
of  general  elections. 

Sec.  9.  That  the  County  registration  books  for  each  elec- 
tion district  shall  be  open  on  each  week  day  from  9A.M. 
to  12  M.  and  from  2  P.  M.  to  5  P.  M.,  and  one  night  each 
week  until  10  P.  M.,  at  some  convenient  place  in  each 
election  district  in  each  County  of  this  State  from  the 
first  Monday  of  January,  1914,  to  the  first  Monday  of 
March,  1914,  biennially  thereafter  from  the  first  Monday 
in  February  to  the  first  Monday  of  March,  for  the  regis 
tration  of  all  persons  who  are  legally  qualified  to  register 
for  the  general  primary  election,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Supervisor  of  Kegistration  to  appoint  district  reg- 
istration officers  of  each  election  district  as  authorized 
and  required  by  the  provisions  of  Section  179  of  the  Gen- 
eral Statutes,  which  said  district  registration  officers 
shall  keep  the  registration  books  open  in  their  districts 
respectively  as  herein  required.  Each  district  registra- 
tion officer  shall  post  notice  in  at  least  three  public  places 
within  his  election  district,  stating  the  place  and  the 
building  where  he  will  have  open  the  registration  books. 

Sec.  10.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Supervisor 
of  Registration  of  each  County  in  this  State,  between 
March  15th  and  April  15th,  1914,  and  biennially  between 
corresponding  dates  thereafter,  to  keep  the  registration 
books  of  the  County  open  at  his  office  every  day,  Sun- 
days excepted,  from  9  o'clock  a.  m.  to  12  o'clock  m..  and 
from  2  o'clock  p.  m.  to  5  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  registra- 
tion of  electors  for  the  general  primary  election. 

Except  during  the  periods  of  time  prescribed  in  this 
and  the  preceding  section,  the  registration  books  for 
primary  elections  shall  be  closed. 

Sec.  11.  No  person,  unless  exempt  under  the  provi- 
sions of  law  relating  to  general  elections,  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  vote  at  a  primary  election  who  shall  have 
failed  to  pay  at  least  on  or  before  the  second  Saturday 
in  the  month  preceding  the  day  of  such  election  his  poll 
taxes  for  two  years  next  preceding  the  year  in  which 
such  primary  election  shall  be  held.  Nor  shall  any  per- 
son be  permitted  to  vote  at  any  such  election  who  shall 
not  have  registered  during  the  period  the  registration 


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books  are  required  to  be  kept  open  next  preceding  the 
day  of  said  election. 

Sec.  12.  There  shall  be  one  or  more  volumes,  well 
bound  with  leather  backs  and  corners  and  cloth  sides 
for  each  election  district,  large  enough  to  contain  the 
names  of  all  the  electors  in  the  district  for  which  pro- 
vided, called  the  "General  County  Kegister"  for  election 

District (Number  to  be  inserted).  The  pages  of  said 

register  shall  be  alphabetically  indexed  on  the  margin. 
There  shall  be  one  registration  book  bound  in  tag  board 
with  cloth  strips  on  the  back,  for  each  election  precinct 
in  each  County  in  the  State,  called  "Precinct  Kegister 

for  Precinct  County" ; 

and  its  pages  shall  be  alphabetically  indexed  on  the  mar- 
gin so  as  to  facilitate  registering  the  electors  in  the 
precinct  in  alphabetical  order1,  according  to  surnames. 
These  precinct  registers  shall  be  bound  in  different  sizes, 
so  as  to  suit  the  different  precincts.  The  paper,  size  of 
pages,  ruling  and  printing  shall  be  the  same  as  used  for 
the  General  County  Kegister.  Said  registration  books 
shall  be  ruled  and  printed  substantially  in  the  following 
form  : 


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The  following  form  of  oath  shall  be  printed  in  the 
column  in  which  the  word  "Oath"  appears:  "I,  having 
been  first  duly  sworn,  say,  upon  oath,  that  the  statements 
here  entered  opposite  my  name,  as  to  my  qualifications 
as  an  elector,  are  true."  The  Supervisor  of  Registra- 
tion is  hereby  authorized  and  required  to  administer 
this  oath;  and  he  shall  also  administer  the  oath  required 
by  Section  3  of  Article  VI  of  the  Constitution  of  Flor- 
ida, in  the  manner  prescribed  by  Section  178  of  the  Gen- 
eral Statutes  of  Florida. 

Sec.  13.  The  Supervisor  of  Registration  of  each  County 
shall  appoint,  subject  to  removal  by  him  at  any  time,  as 
many  deputy  supervisors  of  registration  as  he  may  deem 
necessary  or  advisable,  whose  compensation  shall  be  paid 
by  him.  Deputy  supervisors  of  registration  shall  have 
all  the  powers  of  the  Supervisor  of  Registration,  and 
their  acts  shall  be  in  all  respects  as  effective  as  the  acts 
of  such  Supervisor  himself.  The  District  registration  of- 
ficers authorized  and  required  by  the  provisions  of  this 
Act,  shall  be  compensated  by  the  County  as  now  pro- 
vided by  Chapter  5614,  of  the  Laws  of  Florida,  Acts  of 
1907. 


Sec.  14.  Every  elector  may  be  registered  without 
charge  by  personally  appearing  in  the  office  of  the  said 
Supervisor  of  Registration  and,  after  being  duly  sworn, 
stating  the  following  facts,  which  the  Supervisor  of  Reg- 
istration shall  appropriately  enter  in  the  General  County 
Register.  Electors  shall  be  numbered  consecutively,  one, 
two,  three,  etc.,  in  each  precinct  as  they  are  registered 
in  the  General  County  Res^ister.  The  Supervisor  of  Reg- 
istration shall  inquire  of  each  person  who  applies  for 
the  purpose  of  being  registered,  when  necessary,  and  en- 
ter the  following  information  as  to  such  person  in  the 
General  County  Register  in  the  division  set  off  for  the 
precinct  in  which  such  person  resides,  to-wit: 

1.  His  registration   number. 

2.  The  date  of  his  registration. 

3.  His  full  name. 

4.  His  political  party  affiliations. 

5.  Leave  a  blank  space  in  which  the  inspectors  of  elec- 


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tion  shall   enter   in   the  precinct  register   the   poll-book 
number  of  each  elector  when  he  has  voted. 

6.  His  business  or  occupation. 

7.  His  age  in  years. 

8.  His  color. 

9.  The  State  or  country  of  his  nativity. 

10.  If  naturalized,  the  time,  place  and  court  of  natur- 
alization or  declaration  as  evidenced  by  the  legal  proof 
thereof,  exhibited  by  such  person. 

11.  His  postoffice  address  at  the  time  of  his  register- 
ing, and,  in  cities  and  towns  having  streets,  by  specify- 
ing the  name  of  the  town,  or  city,  the  street  or  other  lo- 
cation of  or  dwelling  place  of  such  person,  with  the  num- 
ber of  such  dwelling,  if  the  same  has  a  number;  if  not, 
then  with  such  description  of  the  place  as  can  be  read- 
ily ascertained  and  identified. 

12.  The  fact  whether  or  not  he  is  able  to  write  his 
name  and  mark  his  ballot,  and,  if  he  cannot  do  both, 
then  the  nature  of  such  disability  must  be  entered. 

13.  Such  person  shall  then  next  following  the  afore- 
administered  oath,  sign  his  name  in  the  presence  of  the 
Supervisor  of  Kegistration,  in  the  General  Register  upon 
the  same  line  where  the  preceding  information  is  writ- 
ten,  and  the  said   Supervisor  shall   then  sign  his   own 
name  upon  the  said  line,  and  add  any  remarks  required 
by  this  chapter  or  appropriate  thereto,  for  the  informa- 
tion of  the  inspectors  of  election.     If  such   person   de- 
clares that  he  is  unable  to  mark  his  ballot  or  sign  his 
name,  he  shall  state  why,  and  the  Supervisor  of  Regis- 
tration shall  enter  upon  the  register  the  reasons.     If  the 
inability  of  such  person  to  sign  is  apparent,  owing  to 
some  physical  infirmity,  such  as  blindness  or  loss  of  limb, 
incapacitating  him  from  writing,  he  shall  so  state  the 
fact,  but  if  the  disability  is  because  of  the  illiteracy  of 
such  person,  the  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall,  in  ad- 
dition to  entering  that  fact,  enter  as  full  a  description 
of  such   person   as  possible,  giving  his  height,  approxi- 
mate weight,  color,  complexion  and  color  of  eyes. 

The  district  registration  officers  authorized  and  re- 
quired by  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  shall  be  compensated 
by  the  County  as  now  provided  by  Chapter  5614,  of  the 
Laws  of  Florida,  Acts  of  1907. 


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Sec.  15.  The  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall  then 
enter  in  the  separate  precinct  register  of  the  particular 
precinct  in  which  the  elector  resides  everything  entered 
by  him  in  the  General  Register.  He  shall  arrange  the 
names  alphabetically,  according  to  surname,  in  the 
separate  precinct  register,  but  the  same  number  given 
the  elector  in  the  General  Register  shall  be  given  him  in 
the  separate  precinct  register.  The  said  Supervisor,  or 
his  deputy,  shall  then  require  the  elector  to  sign  his 
name,  and,  as  in  the  General  Register,  he  shall  attest 
the  registration.  The  separate  election  precinct  register 
shall  contain  all  the  information  concerning  the  elector 
contained  in  the  General  County  Register,  including  the 
actual  signature  of  the  elector,  if  able  to  sign,  and  signa- 
ture of  said  Supervisor  or  his  deputy  attesting  such 
registration. 

Sec.  16.  The  State  Executive  Committee  of  each  politi- 
cal party  may  by  resolution  declare  the  terms  and  condi- 
tions on  which  legal  electors,  shall  be  declared  and  taken 
as  proper  members  of  such  party,  and  therefore  entitled 
to  vote  in  the  primary  election  herein  required  to  be 
held,  as  members  of  that  party.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Supervisors  of  Registration  of  the  various  Counties 
in  the  registration  of  electors  to  comply  with  the  terms 
of  any  such  resolution  upon  the  filing  with  them  of  copies 
thereof  duly  certified  by  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of 
any  such  executive  committee,  at  any  time  before  the 
opening  of  the  registration  books  as  herein  required. 

Sec.  17.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration  of  each  County,  immediately  upon  the  clos- 
ing of  the  registration  books  as  herein  provided,  and  not 
later  than  the  thirtieth  day  before  the  primary  election, 
to  furnish  the  Secretary  of  State,  by  telegraph  if  neces- 
sary, a  statement  eo^tnining  the  total  number  of  regis- 
tered electors  of  each  political  party  according  to  his 
registration  books. 

Sec.  18.  The  said  registers  shall  be  public  records. 
Every  citizen  shall  be  allowed  to  examine  the  General 
County  Register  and  each  of  the  precinct  registers,  while 
they  are  in  the  custody  of  the  Supervisor  of  Registration, 
but  shall  not  be  allowed  to  make  copies  or  extracts  there- 


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from.  The  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall  furnish  copies 
of  the  names,  occupations  and  residences  of  any  electors 
upon  payment  to  him  of  reasonable  compensation  there- 
for, not  exceeding  the  customary  fees  for  copying  papers 
in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the"  Circuit  Court,  but  shall 
not  furnish  in  writing  any  other  information  contained 
in  said  registration  books. 

Sec.  19.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  State 
to  cause  to  be  prepared  a  sufficient  number  of  registration 
books,  and  all  other  books  and  blanks  required  by  this 
Act. 

Sec.  20.  The  executive  committees  of  each  political 
party  affected  by  the  provisions  of  this  Act  are  hereby 
authorized  for  the  purpose  of  meeting  their  legitimate 
expenses  and  maintaining  their  party  organizations,  to 
levy  assessments  upon  such  candidates  of  their  respective 
parties  as  are  required  by  Section  24  to  pay  filing  fees; 
but  no  executive  committee  shall  levy  assessments  upon 
any  candidate  exceeding  two  (2)  per  cent  of  the  annual 
salary  or  compensation  of  the  office  sought  by  him;  Pro- 
vided, County  Executive  Committees  shall  have  exclusive 
power  to  levy  assessments  upon  candidates  to  be  voted 
for  only  in  a  single  county,  and  that  Congressional  Execu- 
tive Committees  shall  have  exclusive  power  to  levy  assess- 
ments upon  candidates  for  Representatives  in  Congress, 
and  that  the  State  Executive  Committee  shall  have  exclu- 
sive power  to  levy  all  other  assessments  hereby  author- 
ized ;  Provided  further,  That  no  assessment  shall  be  made 
by  any  executive  committee  in  the  event  of  a  special  pri- 
mary election.  Upon  payment  by  a  candidate  of  such 
committee  assessment,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a 
receipt  for  such  payment  from  the  chairman  thereof. 

Sec.  21.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  executive  com- 
mittee, not  later  than  March  15th  of  each  year  in  which 
a  general  primary  election  is  to  be  held,  to  adopt  a  resolu- 
tion setting  forth  what  assessments,  if  any,  it  will  require 
of  candidates,  and  cause  a  certified  copy  thereof  to  be 
delivered  as  provided  in  this  section  within  five  days  there- 
after. Said  certified  copy  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  if  adopted  by  a  State  or  Congressional  Ex- 
ecutive Committee;  and  if  adopted  by  a  County  Execu- 


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tive  Committee,  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  said 
County,  who  shall  receive  the  same  in  his  capacity  of 
clerk  of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  thereof.  Said 
certified  copies  shall  be  preserved  by  the  Secretary  of 
State,  and  by  the  various  Boards  of  County  Commission- 
ers. 

Sec.  22.  Every  candidate  for  nomination  to  any  office 
herein  provided  for  shall  be  required  to  take  and  sign  and 
subscribe  to  an  oath  or  affirmation  in  writing,  in  which 
he  shall  state  the  particular  party  of  which  he  is  a  mem- 
ber; that  he  did  not  vote  for  any  nominee  of  any  other 
party,  National,  State  or  County,  at  the  next  preceding 
general  election;  the  title  of  the  office  for  which  he  is  a 
candidate;  that  he  is  a  qualified  voter  of  the  State,  giving 
the  name  of  the  county  of  his  legal  residence ;  that  he  has 
paid  his  poll  taxes  legally  due ;  that  he  is  qualified  under 
the  constitution  and  laws  of  Florida  to  hold  the  office 
for  which  he  desires  to  be  nominated;  that  he  has  paid 
the  assessment  levied  against  him  as  a  candidate  for 
said  office  by  the  appropriate  executive  committee  of  the 
political  party  of  which  he  is  a  member;  that  he  has  not 
violated  any  of  the  laws  of  the  State  relating  to  elections 
or  the  registration  of  voters. 

Said  sworn  statement  shall  be  substantially  in  the  fol- 
lowing form: 

STATE  OF  FLORIDA, 

COUNTY  OF 

Before  me,  an  officer  authorized  to  administer  oaths, 

personally  appeared ,  to  me  well 

known,  who,  being  sworn,  says  he  is  a  member  of  the 

party ;  that  he  did  not  vote  for  any 

nominee  of  any  other  party,  National,  State  or  County, 
at  the  last  general  election;  that  he  is  a  candidate  for 

nomination  for  the  office  of in  the 

general  primary  election  in  the  year  19 . . . ;  that  he  is  a 

qualified  voter  of  County,  Florida ;  that 

he  has  paid  his  poll  taxes  legally  due;  that  he  has  paid 
the  assessment  levied  against  him  as  a  candidate  for  said 

office  by  the Executive  Committee  of  the 

party ;  that  he  is  qualified  under  the 

constitution  and  laws  of  Florida  to  hold  the  office  for 
which  he  desires  to  be  nominated;  and  that  he  has  not 


violated  any  of  the  laws  of  the  State,  relating  to  elections 
or  the  registration  of  voters. 


(Signature  of  candidate.) 

Sworn  to  and  subscribed  before  me  this 

day  of ,  19 . . ,  at 

County,  Florida. 


Signature  and  title  of  officer  administering  oath. 

Sec.  23.  The  executive  committees  herein  provided  for 
shall  furnish  without  charge  a  printed  form  of  the  sworn 
statement  prescribed  in  the  preceding  section  to  any  pros- 
pective candidate  upon  application  therefor. 

Sec.  24.  Each  candidate  for  nomination  for  any  office 
herein  provided  for  shall  be  required  to  pay  a  filing  fee 
at  the  time  of  filing  the  sworn  statement  provided  for 
in  Section  22.  The  amount  of  said  filing  fee  shall  be 
three  per  cent  of  the  annual  salary  or  compensation  of 
the  office  sought  by  the  candidate;  Provided,  That  no 
filing  fee  shall  be  required  of  any  candidate  for  any  of- 
fice to  the  holder  of  which  no  salary  or  compensation  is 
required  to  be  paid. 

Sec.  25.  Each  candidate  for  nomination  for  an  office 
to  be  voted  for  by  the  electors  of  more  than  one  County 
shall  file  his  sworn  statement  and  receipt  for  commit- 
tee assessment,  if  any  has  been  levied,  and  pay  his  filing 
fee  as  herein  required  to  the  Secretary  of  State  not  less 
than  thirty  days  previous  to  the  day  of  the  primary  elec- 
tion. 

Sec.  26.  Each  candidate  for  nomination  for  an  office 
to  be  voted  for  wholly  within  a  single  County  shall  file 
his  sworn  statement  and  receipt  for  committee  assess- 
ment, if  any  has  been  levied,  with,  and  pay  his  filing  fee 
as  herein  required  to,  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of 
said  County,  who  shall  receive  the  same  in  his  capacity 
as  clerk  of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  said 
County,  not  less  than  twenty  days  previous  to  the  day 
of  the  primary  election. 

Sec.  27.  Each  person  who  shall  have  filed  his  sworn 
statement  and  paid  his  filing  fee  and  committee  assess- 


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merit,  if  any,  as  herein  required,  shall  be  entitled  to  have 
his  name  printed  on  the  official  primary  election  ballot ;. 
Provided,  That  whenever  the  number  of  candidates  of  any 
political  party  for  any  office  or  position  shall  not  exceed 
the  number  required  to  be  nominated  or  elected  to  said 
office  or  position,  the  names  of  such  candidates  shall  not 
be  printed  on  the  official  primary  election  ballot,  but  such 
candidates  are  hereby  declared  to  be  nominated  for  such 
office,  or  elected  to  such  position. 

Sec.  28.  The  State  Executive  Committee  of  any  po- 
litical party  may,  by  resolution,  declare  for  the  nomina- 
tion of  candidates  for  other  than  elective  offices,  and  also 
for  the  selection  of  National  Committeemen,  delegates  to 
National  Political  Conventions,  and  for  President  and 
Vice-President  of  the  United  States.  Upon  the  adop- 
tion by  such  committee  of  a  resolution  for  the  nomina- 
tion or  selection  of  any  such  additional  candidates  or 
delegates,  and  upon  service  of  a  certified  copy  thereof 
upon  the  Secretary  of  State,  within  the  time  required  for 
filing  sworn  statements  by  candidates,  the  names  of  can- 
didates for  such  offices  and  positions  shall  appear  upon 
the  official  primary  election  ballot.  The  form  of  ballot 
shall  correspond  in  all  respects  to  the  form  herein  pre- 
scribed. 

Sec.  29.  Any  candidate  may  file  with  the  Secretary 
of  State  for  publication  as  herein  provided,  not  later 
than  the  thirty-third  day  before  the  primary  election, 
with  his  portrait  cut  if  he  wishes,  a  printed  or  typewrit- 
ten statement  or  statements,  on  the  conditions  hereinafter 
set  forth,  concerning  his  own  candidacy,  or  in  reply  to 
any  statements  served  upon  him,  as  provided  in  this  sec- 
tion. Any  such  candidate  may,  not  later  than  the  thirty- 
ninth  day  before  said  primary  election,  file  with  the  Sec- 
retary of  State  his  printed  or  typewritten  statement  over 
his  signature  concerning  any  other  candidate  for  the 
same  office;  but  every  such  statement  shall  be  accompan- 
ied by  affidavit  or  sheriff's  return  that  personal  service 
has  been  made  upon  such  candidate  of  a  true  copy  of 
such  statement.  Nothing  in  this  Act  shall  be  deemed 
to  make  any  such  statement  or  the  author  thereof  free 
or  exempt  from  any  civil  or  criminal  action  or  penalty 
because  of  any  false,  slanderous  or  libelous  statements 


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offered  for  printing  or  contained  in  such  pamphlet.  The 
person  or  persons  procuring,  making,  composing  or  offer- 
ing such  statements  for  filing  shall  be  deemed  the  au- 
thors and  publishers  thereof. 

Sec.  30.     Candidates  for  nomination  shall  pay  for  one 
page  of  space  in  the  publication  herein  provided  for,  as 
follows : 
For  the  office  of  United  States  Senator,  and  for  all  offices 

to  be  voted  upon  in  each  of  the  counties  in  the 

State    $100.00 

For  the  office  of  Kepresentative  in  Congress 50.00 

For  offices  to  be  voted  for  in  only  one  county. . . .  10.00 
For  offices  to  be  voted  for  in  more  than  one  county, 

but  not  exceeding  five  counties,  per  county 7.50 

For  offices  to  be  voted  upon  in  more  than  five  but 

less  than  all  counties,  per  county 5.00 

Any  candidate  may  have  additional  space  at  the  rate  of 
f  100.00  per  page,  but  no  payment  shall  be  received  for 
less  than  a  full  page;  Provided,  That  not  more  than  three 
additional  pages  shall  be  allowed  to  any  one  candidate. 

All  payments  required  by  this  section  shall  be  made 
to  the  Secretary  of  State  when  the  statement  is  offered 
to  him  for  filing,  to  be  by  him  paid  into  the  General  Reve- 
nue Fund  of  the  State  Treasury. 

Sec.  31.  The  pages  of  the  pamphlets  required  by  this 
Act  shall  be  six  by  nine  inches  in  size,  and  the  printed 
matter  therein  shall  be  set  in  eight-point  roman-faced 
type,  single  leaded  and  twenty-five  ems  pica  in  width, 
\rith  proper  heads. 

Sec.  32.  Not  later  than  the  thirtieth  day  before  the 
primary  election,  the  Secretary  of  State  shall  cause  all 
such  statements,  and  portrait  cuts  properly  compiled, 
edited,  prepared  and  indexed  for  printing,  to  be  printed 
and  bound  in  pamphlet  form,  the  pictures  of  the  candi- 
dates appear  as  a  part  of  their  several  statements  where 
such  portrait  cuts  are  offered.  All  of  the  statements  filed 
by  candidates  for  nomination  to  each  office  shall  be  print- 
ed in  the  order  in  which  the  names  of  candidates  are 
grouped  under  the  titles  of  the  offices  on  the  official  ballot 
at  the  primary  election.  In  preparing  such  pamphlets  for 
printing,  the  Secretary  of  State  shall  compile  the  copy  in 


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such  manner  as  to  make  it  most  convenient  to  print  and 
bind  under  one  cover,  and  shall  have  printed,  separately 
for  each  political  party,  statements  only  of  candidates  to 
be  voted  for  by  members  of  that  party  for  nomination; 
but  no  picture,  statement  or  argument  for  or  against  any 
candidate  for  nomination  shall  be  included  in  the  copy 
of  said  pamphlet  going  to  any  county  where  such  candi- 
date is  not  to  be  voted  for.  Delivery  of  such  pamphlets 
shall  be  begun  under  the  supervision  of  the  Secretary  of 
State  as  quickly  as  possible  and  not  later  than  the  twenty- 
fifth  day  before  the  primary  election,  and  completed  not 
later  than  the  twentieth  day  before  such  primary  election. 
Pamphlets  shall  be  sent  for  delivery  so  far  as  practicable 
for  the  counties  in  the  order  of  their  distance  from  the 
State  Capital. 

Sec.  33.  The  Secretary  of  State  shall  forward,  by  mail 
or  express,  within  the  time  required  in  the  preceding 
Section,  to  the  Supervisors  of  Registration  of  the  various 
Counties  sufficient  pamphlets  and  not  less  in  number 
than  the  number  of  registered  electors  according  to  the 
information  furnished  him  by  each  Supervisor  of  Regis- 
tration, as  required  by  Section  17  hereof,  to  supply  each 
registered  elector  with  a  copy  of  such  pamphlet  of  his 
political  party. 

Sec.  34.  Immediately  upon  receipt  of  the  pamphlet 
herein  provided  for,  each  Supervisor  of  Registration  shall 
cause  a  copy  thereof  to  be  mailed  to  each  registered 
elector  within  his  County,  taking  care  to  mail  to  each 
such  elector  only  the  pamphlet  of  the  political  party 
of  which  such  elector  is  registered  as  a  member  in  the 
registration  books. 

Sec.  35.  In  order  to  facilitate  the  mailing  of  the 
pamphlets  herein  provided  for,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  Secretary  of  State  to  furnish,  not  later  than  April 
15th  of  each  year  in  which  a  primary  election  is  to  be 
held,  to  the  Supervisors  of  Registration  of  the  various 
Counties,  as  many  wrappers  or  envelopes,  postage  paid, 
as  there  were  registered  voters  therein  at  the  next  pre- 
ceding general  election.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of 
the  Secretary  of  State,  immediately  upon  receiving  from 
the  Supervisors  of  Registration  of  the  various  Counties 


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information  of  the  number  of  qualified  electors  as  pro- 
vided in  Section  17  hereof,  to  forward  to  such  Super- 
visors whatever  additional  wrappers  or  envelopes,  post- 
age paid,  may  be  necessary  to  comply  with  the  provi- 
sions hereof  requiring  pamphlets  to  be  mailed  to  each 
registered  elector. 

Sec.  36.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration  of  each  County  to  cause  all  wrappers  and 
envelopes  for  the  mailing  of  pamphlets  to  be  addressed 
and  ready  for  mailing  by  the  time  the  pamphlets  are 
required  to  be  delivered  to  him. 

Sec.  37.  The  Secretary  of  State  may  employ  such 
clerical  or  other  help  as  may  be  necessary  properly  to  dis- 
charge the  duties  imposed  upon  him  by  the  provisions 
of  this  Act,  including  the  preparation,  publication  and 
delivery  of  the  pamphlets  herein  provided  for,  and  the 
same  shall  be  paid  for  as  provided  in  Section  8  of  this 
Act. 

Sec.  38.  The  names  of  all  candidates  for  the  same 
office  shall  be  printed  together  in  alphabetical  order  ac- 
cording to  surnames.  But  the  order  in  which  the  titles 
to  the  several  offices  to  be  filled  shall  be  arranged  upon 
the  ballot  shall  be  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  officer 
in  charge  of  the  printing  of  the  said  ballot. 

Sec.  39.  Separate  official  ballots  for  each  political 
party  shall  be  printed  and  furnished  for  use  at  each 
election  precinct,  and  shall  be  of  a  different  color  for 
each  of  the  political  parties  participating  in  the  primary 
election.  All  ballots  for  the  same  political  party  shall 
be  alike,  printed  in  plain  type,  and  upon  paper  so  thick 

that  the  printing  cannot  be  distinguished  from  the  back. 

i 

Across  the  top  of  the  ballot  shall  be  printed  the  words 
"Official  Primary  Election  Ballot."  Beneath  this  head- 
ing shall  be  printed  the  year  in  which  said  election  is 
held  and  the  words  "Democratic  Party"  or  "Republican 
Party"  or  other  properly  party  designation.  Above  the 
caption  of  each  ballot  there  shall  be  two  stubs,  with  a 
perforated  line  between  them,  and  with  a  perforated 
line  between  the  lower  stub  and  the  top  of  the  ballot. 


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On  each  of  said  stubs  shall  be  printed  the  words  "Official 

Ballot  Number  ,"  with  a  sufficient  space  beneath 

such  words  for  the  writing  of  one  line. 

Each  group  of  candidates  to  be  voted  on  shall  be  pre- 
ceded by  the  designation  of  the  office  for  which  the  candi- 
dates seek  nomination,  and  in  the  proper  place  the  words 
"Vote  for  one"  or  "Vote  for  two"  (or  more,  according 
to  the  number  to  be  elected  to  such  office  at  the  ensuing 
election).  And  there  shall  also  be  printed  the  words 
"First  Choice"  and  "Second  Choice,"  perpendicularly  at 
the  head  of  appropriate  rulings  or  lines  at  the  right  of 
the  names  of  the  candidates  wherever  either  a  majority 
vote  or  a  tie  vote  would  not  otherwise  necessarily  oc- 
cur. 

Sec.  40.  The  names  of  candidates  for  each  office  shall 
be  printed  in  alphabetical  order  according  to  surnames, 
and,  except  as  to  the  order  in  which  the  several  offices 
to  be  filled  are  stated,  official  ballots  for  primary  elec- 
tions shall  be  printed  in  substantially  the  following  form : 


OFFICIAL  BALLOT  No 

OFFICIAL  BALLOT  No 

OFFICIAL  PRIMARY  ELECTION  BALLOT. 

1914 

DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 
Precinct   Number   1.     ALACHUA   COUNTY. 

Instructions :  To  vote  for  any  candidate,  make  a  cross 
(X)  in  the  square  in  the  appropriate  column,  according 
to  your  choice,  at  the  right  of  his  name.  Vote  your 
first  choice  in  the  first  column;  vote  your  second  choice 
in  the  second  column. 

If  there  is  no  second  column  at  the  right  of  a  name, 
vote  your  first  choice  only.  Do  not  vote  more  than  one 
choice  for  the  same  candidate. 


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For  Governor. 
Vote  for  One: 

S 

1 

o 

In 

£ 

Second  Choice 

WILLIAM  JONES 

CHAELES  SMITH 

JOHN  WILLIAMS 

Railroad  Commissioner. 
Vote  for  Two 


JAMES  DAVIS 


EOBEET  JOHNSON 


THOMAS  MITCHELL 


EICHAED  WHITE 


For  United  States  Senator. 

Vote  for  One: 


FEANK  ANDEESON 


JOSEPH  BEOWN 


For  Sheriff. 

Vote  for  One: 

BENJAMIN  THOMPSON I   I   | 

DAVID  WALKEE |   |   | 

SAMUEL  YOUNG I   |   | 

Sec.  41.  Any  qualified  elector  who  is  also  a  member 
of  a  political  party,  as  herein  defined,  participating  in  a 
primary  election,  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  at  such  primary 
election  and  shall  receive  the  official  primary  election  bal- 
lot of  the  political  party  designated  in  his  registration, 
and  no  other;  provided,  that  an  elector  who  shall  have 
voted,  at  the  next  preceding  general  election,  for  any  nom- 
inee of  any  political  party  for  any  office  for  which  a  nomi- 
nation is  required  to  be  made  by  the  provisions  of  this 
Act,  shall  not  be  entitled  to  receive  or  vote  the  ballot  of 
a  different  political  party  at  such  primary  election. 


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Sec.  42.  Before  any  ballot  is  delivered  to  any  voter, 
one  of  the  inspectors  shall  write  the  consecutive  number 
of  the  ballot  in  the  blank  space  on  each  of  the  stubs  after 
the  word  "Number."  He  shall  also  write  upon  the  upper 
stub  the  name  of  the  voter  to  whom  the  ballot  is  delivered, 
and  shall  write  his  own  initials  upon  the  lower  stub.  The 
inspector  shall  then  detach  and  retain  the  upper  stub 
with  the  name  of  the  owner  written  thereon;  thereupon 
the  voter  shall  retire  to  the  booth  and  mark  his  ballot 
preparatory  to  depositing  it  in  the  ballot-box.  After 
the  voter  has  marked  his  ballot,  he  shall  fold  it  so  as  to 
leave  the  stub  visible  and  in  such  position  that  it  may 
be  detached  without  unfolding.  When  the  prepared  bal- 
lot is  returned,  the  inspector  shall  compare  it  with  the 
stub  he  has  retained,  and  if  he  finds  it  to  be  the  same 
ballot  delivered  to  the  voter  he  shall  detach  and  retain 
the  remaining  stub,  and  the  voter  shall  then  deposit  his 
folded  ballot  in  the  ballot-box.  But  if  the  marked  bal- 
lot returned  by  the  voter  proves  to  be  a  different  one 
from  the  one  delivered  to  him,  the  inspector  shall  then 
and  there  search  the  person  of  the  voter  preferring  such 
ballot,  and,  if  the  original  ballot  is  found  on  or  about 
his  person,  shall  take  same  into  their  possession  and  dis- 
charge said  voter  from  the  polling  place  without  permit- 
ting him  to  vote.  Inspectors  of  primary  elections  are 
hereby  clothed  with  such  police  powers  as  may  be  neces- 
sary to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  section.  Any 
voter  thus  attempting  to  vote  a  substituted  ballot  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  felony,  and,  upon  conviction  there- 
of, shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  State  prison  for  not  more 
than  two  years. 

Sec.  43.  Any  person  offering  to  vote  at  a  primary 
election  may  be  challenged  by  any  elector.  It  shall  not 
be  necessary  for  the  elector  entering  the  challenge  to 
state  any  reason  or  ground  therefor.  Upon  a  challenge 
being  entered  against  the  right  of  any  person  to  vote,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  inspectors  of  the  election  imme- 
diately to  deliver  to  said  challenged  person  the  follow- 
ing form  of  affidavit: 

STATE  OF  FLORIDA 

COUNTY  OF 

I  do  solemnly  swear  that  my  name  is ; 

that  I  am  a  member  of  the Party,  and  at 


C4 

the  last  general  election  I  did  not  vote  for  any  nominee 

of  any  other  party ;  that  my  occupation  is  that  of 

;  that  I  am years  old ;  that  T  was 

born  in  the  State  of or  the  country  of 

;  that  my  residence  is  on 

street,  in  the  town  or  city  of ,  in  this  elec- 
tion precinct  of  county ;  that  I  per- 
sonally made  application  for  registration  and  signed  my 
name,  and  that  I  am  a  qualified  elector. 


Sworn  to  and  subscribed  before  me  this day  of 

,   19... 


Inspector  of  Elections. 

Authority  is  hereby  conferred  upon  any  of  the  inspec- 
tors or  clerks  of  election  to  administer  the  foregoing  oath. 
If  the  person  applying  to  vote  refuses  to  make  and  sign 
the  affidavit  herein  prescribed,  the  inspectors  shall  refuse 
to  allow  him  to  vote.  If,  however,  the  challenged  person 
fills  in  the  blanks  in  the  said  affidavit,  it  shall  then  be  the 
duty  of  the  inspectors  and  clerk  of  election  carefully  to 
compare  the  information  which  he  has  written  in  the 
affidavit  with  the  information  entered  in  the  registration 
book  opposite  the  name  of  the  person  who  the  challenged 
person  represents  himself  to  be,  and,  upon  such  compari- 
son, and  upon  comparison  of  the  signatures  in  the  regis- 
tration book  and  on  the  affidavit,  and  upon  the  taking  of 
any  other  evidence  which  may  then  be  offered,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  inspectors  of  election  to  decide  by 
majority  vote  whether  the  challenged  person  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  vote;  Provided,  That  if  the  challenged  person 
be  unable  to  write  or  sign  his  name,  the  inspectors  shall 
then  ascertain  by  examination  of  the  precinct  register 
whether  the  person  registered  under  the  name  of  such 
person  is  represented  thereby  to  have  signed  his  name. 
If  he  is  so  represented,  such  person  shall  be  denied  per- 
mission to  vote  without  further  examination ;  but  if  not, 
then  one  of  the  inspectors  shall  place  such  person  under 
oath  and  orally  examine  him  upon  the  subject  matters 
contained  in  the  affidavit  prescribed  by  this  section.  If 
there  is  any  doubt  in  the  mind  of  any  inspector  as  to  the 
identity  of  such  person,  the  inspectors  shall  also  com- 
pare the  appearance  of  such  person  with  the  description 


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entered  upon  the  precinct  register,  opposite  the  name  of 
the  elector  who  such  person  represents  himself  to  be. 
Said  inspector  shall  then  proceed  as  in  other  cases  to  de- 
termine whether  the  challenged  person  shall  be  permitted 
t'>  vote. 

Sec.  44.  At  the  close  of  the  primary  election  at  each 
polling  place,  the  inspectors  and  clerk  shall  proceed  in 
the  manner  provided  by  law  in  the  case  of  general  elec- 
tions, and,  in  addition  thereto,  it  shall  be  the  duly  of 
the  inspectors  and  clerk  of  election  in  each  Election  Dis- 
trict carefully  to  enter  the  number  of  the  first  and  second 
choice  votes  for  each  candidate  and  make  return  thereof, 
as  provided  by  law  in  the  case  of  returns  in  general  elec- 
tions. First  and  second  choice  votes  shall  not  be  cast  by 
a  voter  for  the  same  candidate,  and  in  the  event  this  shall 
be  done,  only  the  first  choice  votes  shall  be  counted 

Sec.  45.  The  counting  of  the  ballots  completed,  the 
results  shall  be  publicly  proclaimed.  Duplicate  certifi- 
cates of  the  results  of  such  election  shall  be  drawn  up  by 
said  inspectors  and  clerk  at  each  and  every  election  pre- 
cinct, which  shall  contain  all  matters  and  things  provided 
for  in  the  law  regulating  general  elections,  and,  in  addi- 
tion thereto,  in  all  cases  where  first  and  second  choice 
ballots  are  voted,  the  number  of  first  choice  votes  received 
by  each  candidate  and  for  which  particular  candidate 
said  electors  cast  their  second  choice  votes  and  the  num- 
ber thereof.  Said  certificates  in  this  respect  shall  be 
substantially  in  the  following  form : 


.electors   voted first   choice  votes  for  A 

and second   choice  votes  for  B 

and second   choice  votes  for  C 

and second  choice  votes  for  D 

electors   voted first  choice  votes  for  B 

and second   choice  votes  for  A 

and second   choice  votes  for  C 

and second  choice  votes  for  D 

electors   voted first  choice  votes  for  C 

and second   choice  votes  for  A 

and second  choice  votes  for  B 

and . .        . .  second  choice  votes  for  D 


5— E.L. 


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electors   voted first  choice  votes  for  D 

and second   choice  votes  for  A 

and second  choice  votes  for  13 

and second   choice  votes  for  C 

Sec.  46.  On  the  sixth  day  after  any  primary  election, 
or  sooner,  if  the  returns  shall  have  been  received,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  County  Judge  and  the  Supervisor  of 
Registration  to  meet  at  the  office  of  the  said  Supervisor 
of  Registration  and  take  to  their  assistance  the  chair- 
man or  other  member  of  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners; and  in  case  of  absence,  sickness,  refusal  to  act, 
or  other  disability  of  the  County  Judge  or  Supervisor  of 
Registration,  anothef  member  of  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  who  shall  be  designated  by  the  chairman 
of  said  board,  shall  act  in  his  place,  who  shall  constitute 
and  be  the  County  Canvassing  Board  of  primary  elec- 
tions; and  they  shall  proceed  publicly  to  canvass  the  vote 
given  for  the  several  nominations  and  the  person  as 
shown  by  the  returns  on  file  in  the  offices  of  such  County 
Judge  and  Supervisor  of  Registration.  Such  canvass 
shall  be  made  solely,  exclusively  and  entirely  from  the 
returns  and  certificates  of  the  inspectors  in  each  Election 
District,  as  signed  and  filed  by  them  with  the  County 
Judge  and  Supervisor  of  Registration,  respectively,  and 
in  no  case  shall  the  Board  of  County  Canvassers  change 
or  vary  in  any  manner  the  number  of  votes  cast  for  the 
candidates  respectively,  in  any  polling  place  in  the  Coun- 
ty, as  shown  by  the  returns  of  the  inspectors  of  such 
polling  place. 

Sec.  47.  The  County  Canvassing;  Board  of  primary 
elections  shall  compile  the  results  of  the  primary  election, 
as  shown  by  the  returns  of  the  inspectors,  and  shall  then 
make  and  sign  duplicate  certificates  containing,  in  words 
written  at  full  length  and  in  figures,  the  whole  number 
of  votes  given  for  each  nomination;  the  names  of  the  per- 
sons for  whom  such  votes  were  given  for  such  nomina- 
tion, and  the  number  of  votes  given  for  each  person  for 
such  nomination ;  and  in  cases  of  first  and  second  choice 
ballots,  the  number  of  first  choice  votes  received  by  each 
candidate  in  the  County  and  for  which  particular  candi- 
dates the  said  electors  cast  their  second  choice  votes,  and 
the  number  thereof,  in  the  same  manner  for  the  Counties 


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as  is  required  of  the  inspectors  and  clerks  of  each  elec- 
tion precinct.  Such  certificates  shall  be  recorded  by  the 
Supervisor  of  Registration  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him 
for  that  purpose,  which  book  shall  be  furnished  by  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners,  and  shall  be  labeled 
"Record  of  Primary  Election  Returns,"  and  one  of  such 
duplicates  shall  immediately  be  transmitted,  by  mail  or 
by  express,  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  and  the  other  to 
the  Governor  of  the  State.  The  Supervisor  of  Registra- 
tion shall  transmit  by  mail  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  im- 
mediately after  the  County  Canvassing  Board  shall  have 
canvassed  the  returns  for  State  and  County  officers,  a  list 
giving  the  names  of  all  County  officers  nominated,  the 
office  for  which  each  was  nominated,  with  the  post- 
office  address  of  such  nominees,  in  their  respective  Coun- 
ties. 

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Sec.  48.  On  the  twentieth  day  after  the  holding  of 
any  primary  election,  or  sooner,  if  the  returns  shall  have 
been  received  from  the  several  Counties  wherein  a  pri- 
mary election  shall  have  been  held,  the  Secretary  of 
State,  the  Comptroller  and  the  Attorney  General,  or 
any  two  of  them,  together  with  any  other  administrative 
officer  of  the  executive  department  who  may  be  desig- 
nated by  them,  shall  meet  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary 
of  State,  pursuant  to  notice  to  be  given  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  who  shall  constitute  and  be  the  State 
Canvassing  Board  of  Primary  Elections,  and  they  shall 
proceed  publicly  to  canvass  the  returns  of  said  Primary 
Election  and  determine  and  declare  who  shall  have  been 
nominated  as  shown  by  such  returns. 

Sec.  49.  In  all  cases  where  second  choice  voting  is 
not  provided  for  by  this  Act,  the  candidate  for  an  office 
receiving  a  majority  of  votes  shall  be  declared  nominated 
for  such  office. 

Sec.  50.  If  any  candidate  for  an  office  shall  receive 
a  majority  of  first  choice  votes  he  shall  be  declared 
nominated  for  such  office.  If  no  candidate  shall  receive 
such  a  majority  of  first  choice  votes,  then  the  nomina- 
tion for  such  office  shall  be  determined  by  excluding 
from  further  consideration  the  candidacy  of  all  except 
the  two  candidates  who  shall  have  received  the  greatest 


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and  next  greatest  number  of  first  choice  votes,  or  the 
greatest  and  equal  number  of  first  choice  votes,  and  by 
adding  to  such  first  choice  votes  of  each  of  said  two 
candidates  the  second  choice  votes  cast  for  him  by  those 
voters  whose  first  choice  votes  shall  have  been  cast  for 
any  of  the  candidates  excluded  as  herein  provided. 

The  candidate  then  having  to  his  credit  the  greater 
number  of  votes  thus  ascertained  shall  be  declared  nomi- 
nated for  such  office.  But  if  the  two  remaining  candi- 
dates shall  then  have  an  equal  and  the  highest  number  of 
votes  for  the  same  office,  the  one  having  the  greater  num- 
ber of  first  choice  votes  to  his  credit  shall  be  declared 
nominated  for  such  office.  If,  however,  the  number  of 
first  choice  votes  cast  for  each  of  said  two  candidates 
be  equal,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  or  appropriate 
County  Canvassing  Board  of  primary  elections,  as  soon 
as  the  results  of  the  said  primary  election  shall  have  been 
canvassed,  to  notify  the  chairman  of  the  proper  State, 
Congressional  or  County  Executive  Committee,  as  the 
case  may  be,  to  that  effect;  and  it  shall  thereupon  be  the 
duty  of  said  chairman  to  call  a  meeting  of  said  commit- 
tee within  ten  days,  giving  notice  in  writing  to  the  mem- 
bers of  said  committee  of  the  purpose  thereof,  and  at 
said  meeting  said  committee  shall  have  the  power  to  nom- 
inate, by  majority  vote,  a  candidate  for  said  office,  and 
certify  immediately  thereafter,  through  its  chairman  and 
secretary,  the  said  nomination  to  the  Secretary  of  State, 
or  to  the  appropriate  Board  of  County  Commissioners, 
according  as  said  candidate  was  voted  for  in  more  than 
one  or  in  only  one  County,  who  shall  cause  the  name  of 
such  nominee  to  be  placed  on  the  official  ballot  to  be  voted 
at  the  ensuing  general  election. 

Sec.  51.  The  same  procedure  prescribed  in  the  pre- 
ceding section  shall  be  followed  in  the  event  of  a  tie  vote 
between  any  two  candidates  in  all  cases  where  second 
choice  voting  is  not  provided  for  by  this  Act. 

Sec.  52.  In  the  event  more  than  one  candidate  is  to 
be  nominated  for  the  same  office,  and  there  are  more  can- 
didates than  should  properly  be  nominated  therefor,  the 
method  of  calculation  set  forth  in  Section  50  shall  gov- 
ern in  determining  the  said  nominations. 


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Sec.  53.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  each 
County  shall  cause  to  be  printed  on  the  ballots  to  be  used 
in  the  respective  Counties  at  the  next  general  election 
the  names  of  all  candidates  who  have  been  nominated 
as  herein  provided  for  offices  to  be  voted  for  within  such 
County  at  said  general  election. 

Sec.  54.  The  Secretary  of  State,  not  less  than  thirty 
days  before  the  next  general  election,  shall  certify  to 
the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  each  County  in 
the  State,  in  case  of  an  officer  to  be  voted  for  by  the 
electors  of  the  whole  State,  and  to  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  of  the  Counties  composing  a  Congres- 
sional, Senatorial  or  other  district,  in  case  of  any  officer 
to  be  voted  for  by  the  electors  of  any  such  district  con- 
taining more  than  one  County,  upon  suitable  blanks 
to  be  prepared  by  him  for  that  purpose,  the  fact  of  such 
nomination  and  the  names  of  the  nominee  or  nominees 
and  the  name  of  the  office  to  which  he  or  they  may  be 
nominated,  and  the  name  of  such  persons  shall  be»  print 
ed  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  upon  the 
ballot  at  the  proper  place  in  all  respects  as  herein  pro- 
vided for  nominations  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners. 

Sec.  55.  All  contests  over  the  results  of  a  primary 
election  shall  be  determined  according  to  the  law  appli- 
cable to  like  contests  over  the  results  of  a  general  elec- 
tion. 

Sec.  56.  Whoever  casts  more  than  one  ballot  at  the 
same  primary  election  shall  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  State  Prison  not  exceeding  three  years. 

Sec.  57.  No  registered  voter  shall  call  himself  or  pass 
by  any  other  name  than  the  name  by  which  he  is  regis- 
tered. Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  prevent  the  altera- 
tion of  names  by  the  Circuit  Court,  as  provided  by  law, 
and  when  the  name  of  anyone  is  changed  by  the  order 
of  said  court,  he  shall  notify  the  Supervisor  of  Regis- 
tration of  the  fact  that  his  name  has  been  changed.  Any- 
one violating  this  Section  shall  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  State  Prison  not  exceeding  five  years. 


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Sec.  58.  Any  elector  who  shall  take  or  remove,  or 
attempt  to  take  or  remove,  any  ballot  from  the  polling 
place  before  the  closing  of  the  polls,  or  any  person  who 
shall  interfere  with  any  elector  when  inside  of  the  poll- 
ing place  or  when  marking  his  ballot,  or  any  elector 
who  aids  or  attempts  to  aid  any  elector  by  means  of 
any  mechanical  device  whatever  in  marking  his  ballot, 
shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison 
not  exceeding  one  year,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one 
thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  59.  Whoever  shall  wilfully  and  corruptly  make 
any  false  oath,  affidavit  or  sworn  statement  herein  pro- 
vided for  shall  suffer  the  pains  and  penalties  of  perjury. 

Sec.  60.  Any  candidate  who  shall  wilfully  violate  any 
provision  of  this  Act  shall,  in  addition  to  any  punishment 
prescribed  by  law,  forfeit  any  nomination  he  may  have 
received  at  the  primary  election  in  reference  to  which 
such  crime  or  offense  is  committed. 

Sec.  61.  Any  person  offending  against  any  provision 
of  this  Act  is  a  competent  witness  against  any  other  per- 
son so  offending,  and  may  be  compelled  to  attend  and 
testify  upon  any  trial,  hearing,  proceeding  or  lawful  in- 
vestigation or  judicial  proceeding,  in  the  same  manner  as 
any  other  person.  But  the  testimony  so  given  shall  not  be 
used  in  any  prosecution  or  proceeding,  civil  or  criminal, 
against  the  person  so  testifying.  A  person  so  testifying 
shall  not  thereafter  be  liable  to  indictment  or  presentment 
by  information,  nor  to  prosecution  or  punishment  for  the 
offense  with  reference  to  which  his  testimony  was  given, 
and  may  plead  or  prove  the  giving  of  testimony  accord- 
ingly in  bar  of  such  indictment,  information  or  prosecu- 
tion. 

Sec.  62.  The  words  and  phrases  in  this  Act  shall, 
unless  such  construction  be  inconsistent  with  the  context, 
be  construed  as  follows : 

1.  The  word  "voter"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as 
the  word  "elector." 

2.  The  words  "precinct"  and  "election  precinct"  shall 
have  the  same  meaning  as  the  words  "district"  or  "elec- 
tion district"  as  now  defined  by  law. 


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3.  The  words  "primary"  and  "primary  election,"  the 
primary  nominating  election  provided  by  this  Act. 

4.  The  words  "election"  and  "general  election/'   the 
general  State  and  County  election  held  in  November. 

Sec.  63.  The  primary  elections  required  by  this  Act, 
except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  shall  be  held  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  Article  I  of  Title  IV, 
First  Division,  of  the  General  Statutes  of  Florida. 

Sec.  64.  Time  for  opening  and  closing  the  polls  in 
each  county,  shall  be  left  to  County  officials,  who  are 
required  by  law  to  perform  this  duty,  and  such  polls  must 
be  opened  not  later  than  8:00  A.  M.,  and  closed  not  later 
than  7:00  P.  M. 

Sec.  65.  State,  Congressional  and  County  committees 
shall  publish  itemized  statement  receipts  of  money  from 
candidates,  stating  amounts  each,  also  publish  itemized 
statement  of  expenditures. 

Approved  June  3,  1913. 


CHAPTEK  6470— (No.  50). 

AN  ACT,  Relating  to  Primary  Elections,  and  to  Limit 
Regulate,  Control  and  Restrict  Campaign  and  Other 
Expenditures  in  Connection  With  Primary  Elections, 
and  to  Require  Candidates  for  Primary  Nominations 
to  Make  Certain  Statements  of  Campaign  Expendi- 
tures; to  Require  Certain  Duties  of  Certain  Officers, 
Boards  and  Committees  in  Connection  With  the  Said 
Regulation  and  Control  of  Campaign  Expenditures  as 
Provided  in  Said  Act;  to  Define,  Prevent  and  Punish 
Certain  Offenses  and  Corrupt  and  Illegal  Practices  in 
Connection  With  Primary  Elections ;  to  Require  and 
Protect  the  Purity  of  the  Ballot;  to  Make  Certain  Evi- 
dence Admissible  in  the  Courts,  and  Providing  Penal- 
ties for  Violations  of  Its  Provisions. 

Be  It  Enacted  'by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida : 

Section  1.     That  no  person  in  the  furtherance  of  his 
candidacy  for  nomination  for  public  office  or  public  posi- 


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tion,  in  a  primary  election,  shall  himself,  or  by  or  through 
any  other  person  or  persons,  or  on  behalf  of  any  other 
person,  directly  or  indirectly,  give,  pay,  or  expend  any 
money  or  give  or  pay  anything  of  value,  or  promise  to 
give,  pay  or  expend  any  money  or  to  pay  or  give  any- 
thing of  value  or  authorize  any  expenditure  or  become 
pecuniarily  liable,  except  and  only  for  the  following  pur- 
poses, to-wit: 

For  his  traveling  expenses  while  campaigning,  fee  for 
qualifying,  stenographic  work,  clerks  at  his  campaign 
headquarters  to  address,  prepare  and  mail  campaign 
literature,  telegrams,  telephone,  postage,  freight,  ex- 
press, stationery,  list  of  voters,  office  rent,  newspaper  ad- 
vertising, advertising  in  campaign  book,  printing  and 
the  renting  of  halls  in  which  to  address  the  voters. 

The  expenditure  of  any  money  or  giving,  paying  or 
promising  to  give  or  pay  tczj  money  or  anything  of  value 
directly  or  indirectly  by  any  candidate  in  furtherance 
of  his  candidacy  for  nomination  in  a  primarr  election, 
except  in  the  manner  and  for  the  purposes  authorized  by 
the  provisions  of  this  section  is  hereby  expressly  pro- 
hibited. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  total  expenditures  allowed  and  au- 
thorized for  the  purposes  specified  in  Section  One  (1)  of 
this  Act,  shall  not  be  in  excess  of  the  following  amounts, 
for  each  candidate  for  the  following  offices,  to-wit: 

For  United  States  Senator $4,000.00 

For  Governor $4,000.00 

For  all  other  State  Administrative  Offices $2,500.00 

For  Congressman    $2,000.00 

For  R.  R.  Commissioner,  Adjutant  General,  State 
Chemist,  State  Auditor,  Assistant  State  An 

ditor,  and  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court $2,000.00 

For  State  Attorney ft    600.00 

For  Circuit  Judge $    600.00 

For  State  Senator   $    200.00 

For  Representatives  in  the  Legislature   $    200.00 

For  Congressional  District  Delegates  to  the  Na- 
tional ^Convention f  300.00 

For  Delegate  at  Large  to  the  National  Conven- 
tion, for  Member  of  the  National  Executive 
Committee  and  Presidential  Electors  $  500.00 


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For  County  Officers  in  Counties  having  a  popu- 
lation of  40,000  and  over  $  750.00 

For  County  Officers  in  Counties  having  a  popu- 
lation of  30,000  and  less  than  40,000  .  . . $  500.00 

For  County  Officers  in  Counties  having  a  popu- 
lation of  20,000  and  less  than  30.000 $  450.00 

For  County  Officers  in  Counties  with  less  than 

20,000  population $  400.00 

The  latest  Federal  or  State  census  to  determine 
the  population  of  a  County. 

For  Members  of  the  State  Executive  Committee, 
and  Members  of  the  Congressional  Executive 
Committee,  of  any  political  party  $  100.00 

For  Members  of  the  County  Executive  Committee 

of  any  political  party f  50.00 

The  maximum  amounts  fixed  by  this  section  shall  in- 
clude funds  contributed  to  a  candidate's  campaign  fund, 
and  shall  include  all  expenditures  by  the  candidate  him- 
self or  his  campaign  manager  or  committee.  The  ex- 
pending of  any  money  or  giving  or  promising  to  give  or 
pay  any  money  or  anything  of  value  by  any  candidate 
directly  or  indirectly  in  furtherance  of  his  candidacy 
for  nomination  in  a  primary  election,  in  excess  of  the 
amounts  fixed  and  prescribed  by  this  Section  is  hereby 
prohibited  and  an  expenditure  in  excess  of  said  amounts 
is  declared  to  be  unlawful. 

Sec.  3.  That  any  person  who  violates  the  provisions 
of  Section  One  (1)  of  this  Act  shall  upon  conviction 
be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  one  thousand 
dollars  or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  may 
be  punished  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  and  shall 
from  and  after  his  conviction  be  disqualified  and  ineligible 
to  hold  the  office  or  position  to  which  he  aspires,  or  any 
other  State  or  County  office  or  position,  and  his  nnme 
shall  not  be  allowed  or  printed  on  the  primary  election 
ballot  or  upon  the  official  ballot  to  be  used  in  the  General 
State  and  County  Election,  and  no  officer,  committee 
or  board  authorized  by  law  to  issue  commissions  or 
certificates  of  election,  or  certificates  of  nomination, 
shall  issue  any  such  certificate  or  commission  to  such 
person.  If  at  the  time  of  conviction  such  person  is 
serving  in  the  position  or  office  to  which  he  aspired, 


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his  conviction  shall  be  cause  for  his  removal  or  for  his 
impeachment. 

Sec.  4.  That  any  person  who  violates  the  provisions 
of  Section  Two  (2)  of  this  Act,  shall  upon  conviction 
be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dol- 
lars or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  may 
be  punished  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  and 
shall  from  and  after  his  conviction  be  disqualified  and 
ineligible  to  hold  the  office  or  position  to  which  he  aspires 
or  any  other  State  or  County  office  or  position,  and  his 
name  shall  not  be  allowed  or  printed  on  the  primary 
election  ballot,  or  upon  the  official  ballot  to  be  used  in 
the  General  State  and  County  Election,  and  no  officer, 
committee  or  board  authorized  by  law  to  issue  commis- 
sions or  certificates  of  election  or  certificates  of  nomina- 
tion shall  issue  any  such  certificate  or  commission  to 
such  person.  If  at  the  time  of  the  conviction  such  per- 
son is  serving  in  the  position  or  office  to  which  he  aspired, 
his  conviction  shall  be  cause  for  his  removal  or  impeach- 
ment. 

Sec.  5.  That  no  person  shall,  in  order  to  aid  or  pro- 
mote his  nomination  in  a  primary  election,  directly  or 
indirectly,  himself  or  by  or  through  any  other  person, 
promise  to  appoint  another  person,  or  promise  to  secure 
or  aid  in  securing  appointment,  nomination  or  election 
of  another  person  to  any  public  or  private  position  or 
employment,  or  to  any  position  of  honor,  trust  or  emlu- 
ment,  except  that  he  may  publicly  announce  or  define 
what  his  choice  or  purpose  in  relation  to  any  election 
in  which  he  may  be  called  to  take  part,  if  elected.  Any 
person  who  violates  the  provisions  of  this  Section  shall 
upon  conviction  be  punished  as  provided  by  the  provi- 
sions of  Section  Four  (4)  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  6.  That  any  candidate  or  other  person  who  em- 
ploys, or  offers  to  employ,  or  shall  give,  pay,  reward,  make 
a  loan  to,  or  promise  to  give,  pay,  reward  or  make  a  loan 
to  any  person  for  the  promise  of  his  vote,  his  services,  or 
for  loss  of  time,  or  for  reimbursement  for  his  expenses, 
in  consideration  of  such  person  working,  electioneering, 
or  making  public  addresses,  for  or  against  any  candidate 
for  nomination  in  a  primary  election,  or  who  gives  or 


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receives  any  money  or  other  thing  of  value  to  be  used 
for  such  purpose,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and 
upon  conviction  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  exceed- 
ing one  thousand  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceed- 
ing one  year,  or  may  be  punished  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment,  and  if  a  candidate  is  found  guilty  of  such 
offense  he  shall  from  and  after  his  conviction  be  disquali- 
fied and  ineligible  to  hold  the  position  or  office  to  which 
he  aspires,  or  any  other  State  or  county  office  or  position, 
and  his  name  shall  not  be  allowed  or  printed  on  the  pri- 
mary election  ballot  or  upon  the  official  ballot  to  be  used 
in  the  General  State  and  County  election  and  no  officer, 
committee  or  board,  authorized  by  law  to  issue  commis- 
sions or  certificates  of  election  or  certificates  of  nomina- 
tions, shall  issue  any  such  certificate  or  commission  to 
such  person.  If  at  the  time  of  the  conviction,  such  per- 
son who  was  a  candidate  is  serving  in  the  position  or 
office  to  which  he  aspired,  his  conviction  shall  be  cause 
for  his  removal  or  for  his  impeachment. 

Sec.  7.  That  any  person  who  solicits,  receives  or  ac- 
cepts from  another  any  pay,  gift,  reward,  loan,  money, 
salary,  contribution  or  thing  of  value  as  pay  for  services, 
or  reimbursement  for  loss  of  time  or  for  expenses,  as  a 
consideration  for  him  promising  to  vote  for,  working, 
electioneering  or  making  public  speeches  for  or  against 
any  candidate  seeking  nomination  in  a  primary  election 
shall  upon  conviction  thereof  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  not 
exceeding  one  year,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprison- 
ment. 

Sec.  8.  That  no  person,  firm  or  corporation,  in  the 
furtherance  of  or  in  opposition  to  the  candidacy  of  any 
person  for  nomination  in  a  primary  election  shall  give, 
pay,  loan,  expend,  contribute  or  promise  to  give,  pay, 
loan,  expend  or  contribute  any  money  or  other  thing  of 
value  for  any  purpose  whatever;  provided,  personal  serv- 
ices and  personal  traveling  expenses  may  be  contributed; 
and,  provided,  that  campaign  contributions  may  be  made 
to  a  candidate  direct,  or  to  his  campaign  manager,  by 
other  than  a  corportion,  to  be  expended  only  as  author- 
ized by  this  Act.  Any  person  who  violates  the  provisions 
of  this  Section  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  exceed- 


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ing  one  thousand  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not 
exceeding  one  year,  or  may  be  punished  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment. 

Sec.  9.  That  all  political  advertisements  and  all  cam- 
paign literature  published  or  circulated  prior  to  or  on  the 
day  of  a  primary  election  shall  be  signed  by  the  author 
thereof,  and  if  the  same  is  being  published  and  circulated 
by  a  club  or  a  committee  then  it  shall  be  signed  by  the 
Chairman  and  Secretary  of  such  club  or  committee,  and 
such  literature  which  is  in  circular  form  shall  have  upon 
it  the  name  of  the  printer  or  publisher.  All  political  ad- 
vertisements appearing  in  a  newspaper  shall  be  marked 
"Paid  Advertisement."  Any  person  who  publishes  or  cir- 
culates any  campaign  literature  or  political  advertise- 
ment without  the  name  of  the  author  and  the  name  of  the 
printer  or  publisher  thereon  as  required  by  this  section, 
shall  upon  conviction  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding 
One  Thousand  Dollars  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceed 
ing  one  year,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Sec.  10.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  candidate 
or  other  person  during  the  eighteen  days  next  preceding 
the  day  of  a  primary  election  to  publish  or  circulate  or 
cause  to  be  published  or  circulated  any  charge  against  or 
attack  upon  any  candidate  unless  a  copy  of  such  charge  or 
attack  has  been  personally  served  upon  the  candidate 
against  whom  made  at  least  eighteen  days  prior  to  the 
day  of  the  primary,  and  any  person  publishing  or  circu- 
lating such  charge  or  attack  without  a  copy  of  the  Fame 
having  been  personally  served  upon  the  person  against 
whom  the  charge  or  attack  is  made  as  herein  required, 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  one  thousand 
dollars  or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  be 
punished  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.  Any 
answer  to  a  charge  or  attack  that  contains  only  defensive 
matter  shall  not  be  construed  to  be  a  charge  or  attack. 

Sec.  11.  No  person  shall  directly  or  indirectly,  give, 
pay,  loan,  or  promise  to  give,  pay,  or  loan,  any  money  or 
other  thing  of  value  to  the  owner,  editor,  publisher  or 
agent  of  any  newspaper  or  other  periodical,  as  compen- 
sation or  reward,  for  or  to  induce  him  to  advocate  or  op- 
pose through  the  columns  of  his  paper  any  candidate  for 


nomination  in  a  primary  election,  and  no  such  owner  >  edi- 
tor, publisher  or  agent  shall  solicit  or  accept  such  pay- 
ment or  reward.  Any  person  violating  the  provisions  of 
this  Section  shall  upon  conviction  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned 
not  exceeding  one  year,  or  be  punished  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment.  And  a  candidate  who  is  found  guilty 
of  such  violation  shall  from  and  after  his  conviction  be 
disqualified  and  ineligible  to  hold  the  office  or  position 
to  which  he  aspires,  or  any  other  State  or  County  office, 
or  position,  and  his  name  shall  not  be  allowed  or  printed 
on  the  primary  election  ballot,  or  upon  the  official  bal- 
lot to  be  used  in  the  General  State  and  County  election, 
and  no  officer,  committee  or  board,  authorized  by  law  to 
issue  commissions  or  certificates  of  election  or  certificates 
of  nomination,  shall  issue  any  such  certificates  or  com- 
mission to  such  person.  If  at  the  time  of  conviction, 
such  person  who  was  a  candidate  is  serving  in  the  posi- 
tion or  office  to  which  he  aspired,  his  conviction  shall  be 
cause  for  removal  or  for  his  impeachment. 

Sec.  12.  That  if  any  newspaper  in  its  columns  assails 
the  personal  character  of  any  candidate  for  nomination 
in  a  primary  election,  or  charges  such  candidate  with 
malfeasance  or  misfeasance  in  office,  or  otherwise  attacks 
his  official  record,  or  gives  to  another  free  space  for  such 
purpose,  such  newspaper  shall,  upon  request  of  such  can- 
didate, immediately  publish  free  of  cost  any  reply  he  may 
make  thereto,  in  as  conspicuous  a  place  and  in  the  same 
kind  of  type  as  the  matter  that  calls  for  such  reply;  pro- 
vided, such  reply  does  not  take  up  more  space  than  the 
matter  replied  to.  A  person  who  fails  to  comply  with 
the  provisions  of  this  Section,  shall  upon  conviction  be 
punished  by  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  or  by 
imprisonment  not  exceeding  six  months,  or  by  both  such 
fine  and  imprisonment. 

Sec.  13.  That  the  word  "candidate"  in  this  Act  means 
any  person  who  has  announced  to  any  person,  or  to  the 
public,  that  he  is  a  candidate  for  a  certain  office. 

Sec.  14.  That  no  candidate  for  nomination  in  a  pri- 
mary election  shall  directly  or  indirectly  himself,  or 
by  or  through  another  person,  give,  pay,  expend  or 


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contribute  any  money  or  thing  of  value  for  the  further- 
ance of  the  candidacy  of  any  other  candidate.  Any  per- 
son violating  the  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be  pun- 
ished as  provided  in  Section  3  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  15.  That  any  candidate  or  other  person  who  fur- 
nishes, gives  or  delivers  to  another  person  any  money 
or  other  thing  of  value,  to  be  used  by  another  person 
for  any  purpose  prohibited  by  the  provisions  of  this  Act, 
and  any  person  who  receives  or  accepts  any  money  or 
thing  of  value,  to  be  used  for  any  such  purposes,  shall 
upon  conviction  for  so  doing  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  ex- 
ceeding one  year,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 
A  candidate  found  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  Section 
shall,  from  and  after  his  conviction,  be  disqualified  and 
ineligible  to  hold  the  office  or  position  to  which  he  as- 
pires, or  any  other  State  or  County  office  or  position,  and 
his  name  shall  not  be  allowed  or  printed  on  the  primary 
election  ballot,  or  upon  the  official  ballot  to  be  used  in 
the  General  State  and  County  election,  and  no  officer, 
committee  or  board,  authorized  by  law  to  issue  commis- 
sions or  certificates  of  election  or  certificates  of  nomina- 
tion, shall  issue  any  such  certificate  or  commission  to 
such  person.  If  at  the  time  of  conviction,  such  person 
who  was  a  candidate,  is  serving  in  the  position  or  office 
to  which  he  aspired,  his  conviction  shall  be  cause  for 
removal  or  impeachment. 

Sec.  16.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sheriffs  of 
this  State  to  exercise  strict  vigilance  in  the  detection  of 
any  violations  of  this  Act  and  the  apprehending  of  any 
violators  thereof. 

Sec.  17.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Grand  Jury 
in  each  County,  when  it  convenes  during  a  campaign  pre- 
ceding a  primary  election,  and  at  its  first  meeting  there- 
after, to  make  special  investigation  to  determine  whether 
or  not  there  have  been  violations  of  the  provisions  of  this 
Act,  and  to  return  indictments  where  sufficient  ground 
is  found  for  the  same- 
Sec.  18.  That  when  deemed  advisable  the  Governor 
may  appoint  special  officers  to  see  that  violators  of  the 


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provisions  of  this  Act  are  apprehended  and  punished  as 
herein  provided. 

Sec.  10.  That  each  and  every  candidate  for  nomina- 
tion in  a  primary  election,  be  and  he  is  hereby  required 
to  file  in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of 
the  County  in  which  he  resides  if  he  is  a  candidate  for 
State  Senator,  Representative  in  the  Legislature  or  for 
any  County  office  or  position,  or  in  the  office  of  the  Sec- 
retary of  State  if  he  is  a  candidate  for  a  national  or  State 
office  or  position,  detailed  itemized  statements  of  his 
campaign  expenses  as  follows,  to-wit:  Not  more  than 
thirty  days  nor  less  than  twenty-five  days  prior  to  the 
primary,  also  not  more  than  twelve  nor  less  than  eight 
days  prior  to  the  primary  and  within  ten  days  after  the 
day  of  the  primary,  he  shall  so  file  statements  giving  in 
itemized  detail  form  including  names,  items  and  detail 
amounts  covering  all  of  the  expenditures  made  directly 
or  indirectly  by  him  or  by  any  other  person  acting  for 
him,  and  all  obligations,  debts  or  liabilities  assumed  or 
incurred  on  account  of  his  candidacy  up  to  three  days 
prior  to  the  day  on  which  such  statements  are  presented 
to  be  filed  as  herein  required.  These  statements  shall  in- 
clude the  names  of  all  contributors  to  his  campaign  fund, 
with  amount  given  by  each,  and  a  list  of  all  gifts,  loans  or 
contributions  made  on  account  of  his  candidacy.  Such 
statements  shall  also  set  forth  that  the  same  is  as  full 
and  explicit  as  said  candidate  is  able  to  make;  and  he 
shall  also,  before  some  officer,  qualified  to  administer 
oaths,  take,  subscribe  to  and  file  with  said  statement  the 
following  oath: 

"I  do  solemnly  swear  that  the  statement  herewith  filed 
embraces  all  money  spent  by  me  or  in  my  behalf,  with 
my  knowledge  and  consent  through  or  by  any  other  per- 
son ;  that  I  have  neither,  directly  or  indirectly,  arranged, 
encouraged,  or  connived  at  the  spending  of  any  money 
other  than  as  shown  in  my  said  statement;  that  I  have 
not  repaid  any  money  so  spent,  or  claimed  to  have  been 
so  spent,  and  that  I  will  not  do  so,  and  that  I  have  not 
violated  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  laws  governing  pri- 
mary elections  and  the  expenditure  of  funds  in  connec- 
tion with  a  candidacy  for  a  nomination  in  a  primary,  in 
letter  or  in  spirit,  So  help  me  God." 

Sec.  20.     That  any  candidate  who  fails  to  make  and 


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tile  the  statements  required  by  Section  19  of  this  Act,  in 
the  form  and  at  the  time  specified,  shall  not  have  the  right 
to  have  his  name  placed  upon  the  ballot  to  be  used  in  the 
primary  election,  and  those  intrusted  with  the  prepara- 
tion of  such  primary  ballots  shall,  upon  the  certificate  of 
the  officer  with  whom  said  statements  are  required  (o  be 
filed,  that  a  candidate  has  failed  to  file  such  statement  or 
statements,  omit  his  name  therefrom.  The  name  of  no 
candidate  failing  to  file  such  statements  as  required  by 
said  Section  shall  be  allowed  or  printed  on  the  official  bal- 
lot used  in  the  General  State  and  County  election,  and 
no  committee,  officer  or  board  authorized  to  issue  commis- 
sions, certificates  of  election  and  certificates  of  nomina- 
tion, shall  issue  any  such  commission  or  certificate  to  any 
candidate  who  fails  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  the 
said  Section  19  of  this  Act.  Any  officer,  and  the  members 
of  any  Board  or  Committee  violating  the  provisions  of 
this  Section  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  not  exceeding 
Five  Hundred  Dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding 
six  months. 

Sec.  21:  That  the  officers  with  whom  the  statements  of 
campaign  expenditures  are  filed  under  the  provisions  of 
Section  19  of  this  Act,  shall  securely  keep  on  file  the  said 
statements  for  at  least  three  years  from  the  date  upon 
which  filed,  and  a  copy  of  such  statements  duly  certified 
to  by  the  officer  with  whom  filed  shall  be  admissible  as 
competent  evidence  in  any  of  the  courts  of  this  State. 

Sec.  22.  That  whoever  shall  wilfully  and  corruptly 
make  any  false  oath,  affidavit  or  sworn  statements  herein 
provided  for  shall  suffer  the  pains  and  penalties  of  per- 
jury. 

Sec.  23.  That  whoever  violates  any  provisions  of  this 
Act,  the  punishment  of  which  is  not  specifically  provided 
by  law,  shall  on  conviction  thereof  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  more  than  one  thousand  dollars  or  by  imprison- 
ment for  not  more  than  one  year  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment. 

Sec.  24.  That  this  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately 
upon  its  passage  and  approval  by  the  Governor. 

Approved  June  6,  1913. 


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SAMPLES  OF  TALLY  SHEETS  AND  INSTKUCTIONS 
FOE  USING  SAME. 

Where  there  is  one  candidate  to  be  nominated  and  only 
two  running  there  will  be  no  second  choice*  votes  and 
tally  sheets  will  be  of  the  following  form,  which  for  con- 
venience will  be  designated  as  Form  No.  1. 

FORM  NO.   l.r 

Name  of  Candidates.  Votes  Keceived. 


A. 


B. 


The  candidate  receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes  will 
be  declared  nominated  and  record  made  as  now  made  in 
general  elections  where  there  are  two  candidates. 


Where  there  is  one  candidate  to  be  nominated  and  three 
or  more  running  the  following  form,  called  Form  No.  2, 
will  be  used.  In  this  form  the  votes  have  been  tallied 
out  just  as  they  would  be  tallied  in  actual  use,  and  fol- 
lowing the  form  will  be  found  instructions  for  counting 
the  vote  and  for  recording  the  same. 


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There  are  three  candidates  to  be  voted  for  and  only 
one  can  be  nominated. 

It  is  required  to  so  tally  the  vote  as  to  show  the  num- 
ber of  first  choice  votes  received  by  each  candidate  and 
for  which  other  candidate  these  voters  cast  their  second 
choice  votes.  The  names  of  the  candidates  are  perpendic- 
ularly arranged.  It  will  be  noticed  that  the  names  of  the 
candidates  are  in  alphabetical  order  according  to  sur- 
names. They  will  appear  in  this  order  on  the  ballot  and 
the  tally  sheet  is  intended  to  correspond  with  the  ballot 
in  this  respect. 

Tally  the  first  choice  vote  of  any  candidate  in  the  ap- 
propriate space  on  the  left  of  the  perpendicular  column 
in  which  the  names  of  the  candidates  appear  and  the 
second  choice  votes  in  the  appropriate  spaces  on  the  right. 

For  example,  if  a  first  choice  vote  is  cast  for  A  and  no 
second  choice  is  expressed,  there  should  be  one  tally  to 
the  left  of  A's  name.  If  on  this  ballot  a  second  choice 
vote  is  given  to  C  enter  one  tally  in  the  column  where 
A  and  C  intersect,  reading  from  left  to  right. 

The  record  of  the  Vote  indicated  on  this  form  should 
be  certified  in  the  return  as  follows : 

50  electors  voted  50  first  choice  votes  for  A 
and  25  second  choice  votes  for  B 
and  25  second  choice  votes  for  C 

45  electors  voted  45  first  choice  votes  for  B 
and  30  second  choice  votes  for  A 
and  15  second  choice  votes  for  C 

40  electors  voted  40  first  choice  votes  for  C 
and  20  second  choice  votes  for  A 
and  20  second  choice  votes  for  B 

Where  there  are  two  candidates  to  be  nominated  and 
five  or  more  running  Form  No.  3  will  be  used.  In  this 


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form  the  votes  have  been  tallied  out  and  every  possible 
combination  shown,  and  following  this  form  will  be  found 
instructions  for  counting  the  votes  and  making  proper 
record  of  same. 


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There  are  six  candidates,  A,  B,  C,  D,  E,  and  F,  and  only 
two  can  be  nominated.  It  is  required  to  so  tally  the  vote 
as  to  show  the  number  of  first  choice  votes  received  by 
each  candidate,  either  singly  or  in  combination  with 
another  candidate,  and  for  which  particular  candidates 
these  voters,  whether  voting  first  choice  singly  or  in  com- 
bination, cast  their  second  choice  votes.  The  names  of 
the  candidates  are  perpendicularly  arranged.  It  will  be 
noticed  that  the  name  of  the  candidates  are  in  alpha- 
betical order  according  to  surnames.  They  will  appear 
in  this  order  on  the  ballot,  and  the  tally  sheet  is  intended 
to  correspond  with  the  ballot  in  this  respect.  Tally  the 
first  choice  vote  of  any  candidate,  or  of  any  two  candi- 
dates in  combination,  in  the  appropriate  space  on  the  left 
of  the  perpendicular  column  in  which  the  names  of  the 
candidates  appear,  and  the  second  choice  votes  in  the 
appropriate  spaces  on  the  right.  On  the  tally  sheet  ap- 
pears every  possible  combination  into  which  the  names 
of  the  candidates  can  enter.  For  example:  If  a  first 
choice  vote  is  cast  for  A  and  B,  and  no  second  choice  is 
expressed,  there  should  be  one  tally  to  the  left  of  the 
two  names  as  they  appear  in  combination.  If  on  this 
ballot,  however,  C  and  D  are  given  the  voter's  second 
choice,  enter  also  one  tally  in  the  column  where  A  and  B 
intersect  with  C,  reading  from  left  to  right,  which  is  the 
third  column  to  the  right,  and  tally  one  vote  in  the 
column  where  A  and  B  intersect  with  D,  reading  from 
left  to  right,  which  is  the  fourth  column  to  the  right. 

The  record  of  the  vote  indicated  on  this  form  should  be 
certified  in  the  returns  as  follows : 

100  electors  voted  100  first   choice    votes   for   A 

and                42  second  choice  votes  for  B 

«                   39  "           "                   "     G 

«                   38  "                       "       "     D 

38  "       k''     K 

43  <.                        »       »     F 


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90  electors  voted    90 
and 


first    choice   votes    for    B 
43     second  choice  votes  for  A 

38          "          .  "  "       "     C 

36  "  "  "       "     D 

32  "       "     E 

31  "  «  "       "     F 


84  electors  voted     84 
and 


first    choice    votes  for  C 

28    second  choice  votes  for  A 

33          "            "           "  "     B 

40           "            "           "  "     D 

42                        "           "  "     E 

25           "            "           "  "     F 


70  electors  voted    70 
and 


first  choice  votes  for  D 
22  second  choice  votes  for  A 
31  "  "  B 

34          "  "  "       "     C 

27  "  "  "       "     E 

26  "  "  "       "     F 


100  electors  voted  100 
and 


first    choice    votes  for  E 

41     second  choice  votes  for  A 

41          "            "           "  "     B 

40          "            "           "  "     C 

43                                   "  "     D 

35           "            "           "  "     F 


78  electors  voted 
and 


first  choice  votes  for  F 
28  second  choice  votes  for  A 
31  "  "  "  "  B 

33          "  "  "      "     C 

39  "  "  "       "     D 

25  "  "  "       "     E 


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